The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 3
When the guards found that the Prince did not ask for his supper as usual, they went into his room, and not finding him there, were very much alarmed, and searched the tower from turret to dungeon, but without success.
Who acts: guards, Prince · What happens: find, not ask, go, not find, alarm, search · To what, where: room, Prince, tower, turret · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guards | det |
| 3 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 ask | advmod |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 found | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 supper | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 supper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 usual | case |
| 15 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ask | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 finding | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 finding | cc |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 finding | advmod |
| 25 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 went | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 finding | obj |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 finding | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 alarmed | punct |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADV | _ | 32 alarmed | advmod |
| 32 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 finding | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 searched | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 searched | cc |
| 35 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tower | det |
| 37 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 searched | obj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 turret | case |
| 39 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 searched | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 dungeon | mark |
| 41 | dungeon | dungeon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 turret | acl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 success | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 success | cc |
| 44 | without | without | ADP | _ | 45 success | case |
| 45 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 searched | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the guards | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | past · do-support | the Prince | for Prince's supper; as usual | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | guards = guard | Prince's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not find | gerund | guards = guard not said here | Prince | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 5 | alarm | past · passive | guards = guard not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 6 | search | past | guards = guard not said here | the tower | turret | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tower=Location | |||
| 7 | dungeon | to-infinitive | guards = guard not said here | tree rules |
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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