The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 2
Therefore one by one they all knelt before him and took the oath, and a message was sent to the false prince, forbidding him ever again to appear at court, though a handsome pension was granted him.
Who acts: one · What happens: kneel, take, send, forbid, appear, grant · To what, where: oath, message, false prince, present, court, handsome pension
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 knelt | nsubj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knelt | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 knelt | advmod |
| 7 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knelt | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knelt | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oath | det |
| 13 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 message | det |
| 17 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | aux:pass |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knelt | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 22 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prince | amod |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forbidding | punct |
| 25 | forbidding | forbid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sent | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forbidding | obj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 again | advmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 forbidding | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 appear | mark |
| 30 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 forbidding | advcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 court | case |
| 32 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 appear | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 granted | punct |
| 34 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 39 granted | mark |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 pension | det |
| 36 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 pension | amod |
| 37 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 granted | aux:pass |
| 39 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sent | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 granted | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | one by one | before present | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | one by one not said here | the oath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | a message | the false prince | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prince=Destination | ||||
| 4 | forbid | gerund | present | again | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | appear | to-infinitive | court | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | |||||
| 6 | grant | past · passive | a handsome pension | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme |
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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