The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 12
They went the first day’s journey together, and lay all at an inn, where the road was divided into three different tracts.
Who acts: Princes, first day · What happens: go, lay, divide, journey · To what, where: journey, inn, road, three different tracts
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, first day), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 day | case |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lay | cc |
| 11 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 inn | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 inn | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 inn | det |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 divided | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 divided | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 divided | aux:pass |
| 21 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 inn | acl:relcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 tracts | case |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 tracts | nummod |
| 24 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tracts | amod |
| 25 | tracts | tract | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 divided | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Princes = prince | the first day's journey | together property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | Princes = prince not said here | a inn | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=Destination | ||||
| 3 | divide | past · passive | the road | three different tracts | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | journey | the first day | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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