The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 102
He consented willingly, and the six young men set off in good spirits.
Who acts: maiden, six young men · What happens: consent, set off · To what, where: good spirits
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, six young men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 2 consented | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 consented | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spirits | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirits | amod |
| 14 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | maiden | willingly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | the six young men | good spirits | 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 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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