The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 89

‘One day, shortly after the death of the queen,’ continued the young man, ‘your highness was hunting, and outstripped all your attendants while chasing the deer.

Who acts: highness, queen · What happens: continue, hunt, outstrip, chase, die · To what, where: young man, attendants, deer

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (highness, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 continued	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 continued	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 death	punct
5	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	8 death	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 death	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 death	det
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 queen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 death	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
14	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 continued	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hunting	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 hunting	punct
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 highness	nmod:poss
21	highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hunting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hunting	aux
23	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 continued	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 outstripped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 outstripped	cc
26	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 continued	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 attendants	det:predet
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 attendants	nmod:poss
29	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 outstripped	obj
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 chasing	mark
31	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 outstripped	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 deer	det
33	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chasing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	continue	past		the young man	day	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	hunt	past · progressive	your highness			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	outstrip	past		your attendants		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot attendant=Theme
4	chase	gerund		the deer		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
5	die		the queen			nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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