The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 141
They promised they would, and with great joy they set off for the King their father’s palace, and the Black Thief along with them.
Who acts: fellows · What happens: promise, set off
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellows), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 would | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 joy | amod |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 father | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 father | compound |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 father | case |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Thief | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Thief | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Thief | det |
| 23 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Thief | compound |
| 24 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | parataxis |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Thief | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | fellows = fellow | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set off | past | fellows = fellow | with great joy; for fellows's King father's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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