The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 9
On the third day after the old woman’s departure a young prince, hunting in the forest, got separated from his companions, and completely lost.
Who acts: young prince, old woman · What happens: hunt, separate, lose, depart · To what, where: forest
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 (young prince, old woman), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 separated | obl |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 departure | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 departure | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 10 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 prince | amod |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunting | punct |
| 15 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 prince | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 20 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 separated | aux:pass |
| 21 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 companions | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 companions | nmod:poss |
| 24 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 separated | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lost | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lost | cc |
| 27 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 28 lost | advmod |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 separated | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | gerund | a young prince not said here | the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | separate | past · passive | day | from man's companions | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from companion=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | completely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | depart | the old woman | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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