The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 101
Having entered into the service of this master, the Prince began to ask what was going on in that country.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, enter, begin, ask, go on, service · To what, where: service, country, master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 began | advcl |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 service | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 service | det |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 master | det |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 service | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ask | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 going | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enter | participle | the Prince not said here | the service of this master | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go on | past · progressive | that country | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location | |||||
| 6 | service | this master | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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