The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 99
But he went to the house of a certain tailor, and engaged himself as his servant.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: go, engage · To what, where: house, Prince
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tailor | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tailor | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tailor | amod |
| 10 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 engaged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 engaged | cc |
| 13 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 engaged | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 servant | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 servant | nmod:poss |
| 17 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 engaged | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | the house of a certain tailor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | engage | past | Prince not said here | Prince | as Prince's servant | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent himself=Theme as servant=Attribute |
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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