The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 3
This went on for a long time, and they could not get away from the palace, so they were all in great trouble.
Who acts: This, brother · What happens: go on, not get away, be · To what, where: great trouble
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, brother), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 get | advmod |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 away | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 trouble | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 trouble | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 trouble | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trouble | cop |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 trouble | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trouble | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trouble | amod |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | This | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get away | could | brother | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | brother | great trouble | all property | 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 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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