The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 13
And the end of it was that very soon he started on his travels again, only allowing one equerry to accompany him, and even this attendant he managed to lose the moment he had left his own kingdom behind him.
Who acts: end, attendant, king · What happens: be, travel, allow, accompany, manage, lose · To what, where: one equerry, king, own kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, attendant, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 end | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 started | mark |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 started | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 travels | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 travels | nmod:poss |
| 14 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | advcl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 travels | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 allowing | punct |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 allowing | advmod |
| 18 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 travels | advcl |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 equerry | nummod |
| 20 | equerry | equerry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 allowing | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 accompany | mark |
| 22 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 allowing | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 accompany | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 managed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 managed | cc |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 attendant | advmod |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 attendant | det |
| 28 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 managed | nsubj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 managed | nsubj |
| 30 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 started | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 lose | mark |
| 32 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 managed | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 moment | det |
| 34 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lose | obj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 left | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 left | aux |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 moment | acl:relcl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 kingdom | amod |
| 40 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 left | obj |
| 41 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kingdom | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the end of fun | soon, start property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | the end of fun not said here | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | gerund | the end of fun not said here | one equerry | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equerry=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | accompany | to-infinitive | the end of fun not said here | king | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | manage | past | this attendant | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | lose | to-infinitive | this attendant not said here | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | leave | past · perfect | king | king's own kingdom | behind bird | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme behind he=Location |
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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