The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 32
When they had ridden onwards for some time they reached a king’s palace, and inquired there whether they could be taken into service.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: ride, reach, inquire, take · To what, where: palace, brothers, service
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 ridden | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | aux |
| 4 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 4 ridden | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ridden | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inquired | cc |
| 17 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | conj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 inquired | advmod |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 taken | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taken | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 taken | aux:pass |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 inquired | advcl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 service | case |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | brothers = brother | time | onwards property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | reach | past | brothers = brother | a king's palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | brothers = brother not said here | there | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | could · passive | brothers = brother | service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into service=Destination |
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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