The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 13
But the king was left raging in his empty palace, and he called together his army, and got ready his ships of war, in order that he might go after the vessel and bring back what had been taken away.
Who acts: king · What happens: leave, rage, call together, get, go, bring back · To what, where: king, empty palace, army, ready ships, order
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 5 left | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 left | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palace | amod |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raging | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 called | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 army | nmod:poss |
| 17 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | conj |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ships | amod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ships | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 got | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 war | case |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ships | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 order | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 order | case |
| 28 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 go | nsubj |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 order | acl |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 vessel | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 vessel | det |
| 35 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bring | cc |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 go | conj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 bring | advmod |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 taken | obj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 taken | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 taken | aux:pass |
| 42 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 bring | advcl |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 taken | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rage | gerund | the king not said here | king's empty palace | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | call together speech: assert | past | king | king's army | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | get | past | king not said here | king's ready ships of war | order | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | go | might | king | order not said here | after the vessel | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme | |||
| 6 | bring back | infinitive | king not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | take away | past · perfect · passive | king not said here | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: what=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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