The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 69
Away hurried the king, and soon set all his soldiers scouring the country for a girl with a lance wound in her left.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: hurry, set, scour · To what, where: king, soldiers, country
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 (soldiers), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hurried | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 set | advmod |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 soldiers | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obj |
| 12 | scouring | scour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 soldiers | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scouring | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scouring | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wound | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wound | det |
| 20 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wound | compound |
| 21 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scouring | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 left | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 left | nmod:poss |
| 24 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wound | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | the king | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set | past | king's soldiers | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient soldier=Result | ||||
| 3 | scour | gerund | king's soldiers not said here | the country | for a girl; with a lance wound in girl's left | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Location for girl=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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