The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 48
In the meantime the King won a great victory, and having completely defeated and driven off the enemy, he hurried home to his daughters, to whom his thoughts had constantly turned.
Who acts: King, thoughts · What happens: win, defeat, drive off, hurry, turn, think · To what, where: great victory, meantime, enemy
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, thoughts), 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 | 6 won | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 won | nsubj |
| 6 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 victory | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 victory | amod |
| 9 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 won | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 defeated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 defeated | cc |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 defeated | aux |
| 13 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 14 defeated | advmod |
| 14 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 won | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 driven | cc |
| 16 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 defeated | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 enemy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 enemy | det |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driven | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurried | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hurried | nsubj |
| 22 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 won | parataxis |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 hurried | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 daughters | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 26 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hurried | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 turned | punct |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 whom | case |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 turned | obl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 31 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 turned | aux |
| 33 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 34 turned | advmod |
| 34 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hurried | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | the King | a great victory | the meantime | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | defeat | gerund · perfect | completely property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive off | participle | the enemy | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme enemy=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | hurry | past | King | to King's daughters result; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to daughter=Result | ||||
| 5 | turn | past · perfect | King's thoughts | constantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to whom=Result | ||||
| 6 | think | King | nom thought «cognition 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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