The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 21
But of this they had warning, and by night betook themselves to another town.
Who acts: shields · What happens: have, betake · To what, where: warning, shields
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shields), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 betook | cc |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 betook | advcl |
| 6 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 betook | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 betook | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 betook | obl |
| 11 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 betook | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 betook | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 betook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | shields = shield | warning | of this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Patient | |||
| 2 | betake | past | shields = shield | night | to another town | tree rules |
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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