The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 108
Alas!” he continued, “he was led away by flatterers.
Who acts: Darling, flatterers · What happens: continue, lead away · To what, where: Darling
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, flatterers), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 continued | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 led | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 led | aux:pass |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 continued | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 led | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 flatterers | case |
| 13 | flatterers | flatterer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 led | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | past | Darling | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead away | past · passive | flatterers | Darling | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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