The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 73
After crossing several deserts the king arrived at length in a country that seemed inhabited, but the instant he stepped over the border he was seized and flung into chains, and dragged at once to the capital.
Who acts: king, country, instant · What happens: cross, arrive, seem, inhabit, step, seize · To what, where: several deserts, length, border, king, chains
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 (king, country, instant), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 crossing | mark |
| 2 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 arrived | advcl |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deserts | amod |
| 4 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crossing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 length | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 country | acl:relcl |
| 15 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stepped | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 stepped | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 instant | det |
| 19 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stepped | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stepped | nsubj |
| 21 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 border | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 border | det |
| 24 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stepped | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seized | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seized | aux:pass |
| 27 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 border | acl:relcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flung | cc |
| 29 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 seized | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 chains | case |
| 31 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flung | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dragged | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dragged | cc |
| 34 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 stepped | conj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 once | case |
| 36 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 dragged | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 capital | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 capital | det |
| 39 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dragged | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | gerund | the king not said here | several deserts | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Patient | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the king | length in a country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | a country | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | inhabit | participle | a country not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | step | past | the instant | the border | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over border=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | seize | past · passive | king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | fling | participle | chains | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into chain=Destination | |||||
| 8 | drag | participle | the instant not said here | to the capital | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=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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