The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 16
So Aveline made her preparations accordingly, and began by arranging that the equerry should lose himself in the forest, after which she took away the king’s sword and his horse while he lay asleep under a tree.
Who acts: Aveline, equerry, king · What happens: make, begin, arrange, lose, take away, lie · To what, where: preparations, equerry, forest, sword, tree
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 (Aveline, equerry, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | Aveline | Aveline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 5 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 arranging | mark |
| 11 | arranging | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 lose | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 equerry | det |
| 14 | equerry | equerry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lose | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lose | aux |
| 16 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 arranging | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 lose | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lose | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 took | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADP | _ | 25 took | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sword | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 king | case |
| 30 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 horse | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 horse | nmod:poss |
| 33 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sword | conj |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 lay | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lay | nsubj |
| 36 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | advcl |
| 37 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lay | xcomp |
| 38 | under | under | ADP | _ | 40 tree | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tree | det |
| 40 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Aveline | Aveline's preparations | accordingly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Product | |||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | arrange | gerund | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lose | should | the equerry | equerry | the forest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | take away | past | Aveline | the king's sword and king's horse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lie | past | king | a tree | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||
| 7 | prepare | Aveline | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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