The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 81
Soon after the King went to make war with the Emperor Contalabutte, his neighbor.
Who acts: King · What happens: go, make · To what, where: war
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Emperor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 12 | Contalabutte | Contalabutte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Emperor | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 neighbor | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the King | soon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the King not said here | war | with the Emperor; Prince's neighbor obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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