The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 121
He was delighted, and he seized them and carried them off to the King.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, seize, carry off · To what, where: robes, King
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seized | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | nsubj |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | parataxis |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Prince | robes = robe | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past | Prince not said here | robes = robe | the King | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to king=Destination |
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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