The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 16
In the meantime the Prince’s companions sought him far and wide, but to no purpose, so they sent two messengers to tell the sad news to the King, who immediately ordered a regiment of cavalry and one of infantry to go and look for him.
Who acts: companions, King · What happens: seek, send, tell, order, go, look · To what, where: prince, meantime, two messengers, sad news, King, regiment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Prince | case |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sought | nsubj |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sought | obj |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 sought | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wide | cc |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 far | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 purpose | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 purpose | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 purpose | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 purpose | det |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 sent | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sought | conj |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 messengers | nummod |
| 23 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 tell | mark |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sent | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 news | det |
| 27 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 news | amod |
| 28 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 King | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ordered | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 ordered | nsubj |
| 34 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 35 ordered | advmod |
| 35 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 King | acl:relcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 regiment | det |
| 37 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ordered | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 cavalry | case |
| 39 | cavalry | cavalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 regiment | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 infantry | cc |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 infantry | nummod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 infantry | case |
| 43 | infantry | infantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cavalry | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 go | mark |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 infantry | acl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 look | cc |
| 47 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 go | conj |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 him | case |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 look | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | the Prince's companions | prince | the meantime | to no purpose; far property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in meantime=Location | ||
| 2 | send | past | companions = companion | two messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | companions = companion not said here | the sad news | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 4 | order | past | the King | a regiment of cavalry and one infantry | immediately property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regiment=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look | infinitive | the King not said here | for prince | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for 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 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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