The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 36
Then Arthur and three thousand men of his household set out in quest of Owen, and took Kynon for their guide.
Who acts: Arthur, Owen · What happens: set out, take, quest · To what, where: quest, Kynon
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 (Arthur, Owen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 set | advmod |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 set | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 men | cc |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thousand | compound |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 men | nummod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Arthur | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 household | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 household | nmod:poss |
| 9 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 men | nmod |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 quest | case |
| 13 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Owen | case |
| 15 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 quest | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | parataxis |
| 19 | Kynon | Kynon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 guide | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 guide | nmod:poss |
| 22 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | Arthur and thousand men of man's household | quest of Owen | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | Kynon | for barons's guide | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent kynon=Theme for guide=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | quest | Owen | nom quest «cognition 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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