The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 33
When the rope was made, the Prince called for his brothers, and he and they, having taken servants with them, and everything that was needed for a whole year, set out for the place where the beast had disappeared under the stone.
Who acts: Prince, beast · What happens: make, call, take, need, set out, disappear · To what, where: rope, brothers, stone · 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, beast), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 made | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rope | det |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 called | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taken | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 they | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 they | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 they | punct |
| 19 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 called | conj |
| 21 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 taken | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 taken | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 everything | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 everything | cc |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 taken | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 needed | aux:pass |
| 29 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 everything | acl:relcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 year | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 year | det |
| 32 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 year | amod |
| 33 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 needed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 set | punct |
| 35 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 taken | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 set | compound:prt |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 place | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 place | det |
| 39 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 disappeared | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 beast | det |
| 42 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 disappeared | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 disappeared | aux |
| 44 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 place | acl:relcl |
| 45 | under | under | ADP | _ | 47 stone | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 stone | det |
| 47 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 disappeared | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the rope | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | call | past | the Prince | for Prince's brothers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for brother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund · perfect · passive | brothers = brother | with servants = servant; everything obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme servant=Destination | ||||
| 4 | need | past · passive | year | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | set out | participle | for the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | disappear | past · perfect | the beast | the stone | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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