The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 111
Therefore before going to the Gruagach the king sought out a wise man of the countryside.
Who acts: king · What happens: go, seek out · To what, where: Gruagach, wise man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 3 going | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 going | mark |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Gruagach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Gruagach | det |
| 6 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | nsubj |
| 9 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sought | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 countryside | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 countryside | det |
| 16 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | the Gruagach | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gruagach=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | seek out | past | the king | a wise man of the countryside | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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