The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 10

So Luned set out, riding on a white palfrey, on pretence of journeying to King Arthur’s court, but instead of doing that she hid herself for as many days as it would have taken her to go and come, and then she left her hiding-place, and went into the countess.

Who acts: Luned, pretence, Arthur · What happens: set out, ride, journey, do, hide, take · To what, where: pretence, court, Arthur, it, hiding place, countess

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Luned, pretence, Arthur), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	Luned	Luned	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 riding	punct
6	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 set	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 palfrey	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 palfrey	det
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 palfrey	amod
10	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 riding	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pretence	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 pretence	case
13	pretence	pretence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 riding	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 journeying	mark
15	journeying	journey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 pretence	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 court	case
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Arthur	compound
18	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 court	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Arthur	case
20	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 journeying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 doing	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 doing	cc
23	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 doing	mark
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 instead	fixed
25	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 set	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 hid	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hid	nsubj
28	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 doing	advcl
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 hid	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 days	case
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 many	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 days	amod
33	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hid	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 taken	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 taken	nsubj:pass
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 taken	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 taken	aux
38	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hid	advcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 taken	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 taken	advcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 come	cc
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 go	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 left	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 left	cc
46	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 left	advmod
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 left	nsubj
48	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 place	nmod:poss
50	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 place	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 hiding	punct
52	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 left	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 went	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 went	cc
55	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 left	conj
56	into	into	ADP	_	58 countess	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 countess	det
58	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 went	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	Luned					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	gerund	Luned not said here		pretence		on a white palfrey	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	journey	gerund	pretence not said here		King Arthur's court			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to court=Destination
4	do	gerund	Luned not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	past	Arthur	Arthur		day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
6	take	would · perfect · passive		it				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination
7	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	leave	past	Arthur	Arthur's hiding place		then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
10	go	past	Arthur not said here		the countess			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into countess=Initial_Location

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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