The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 75
He had gone out into the world to look about him, and took service in the king’s palace.
Who acts: stepson · What happens: go out, look, take · To what, where: world, service, palace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepson), 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 | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 gone | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gone | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | conj |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · perfect | stepson | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | stepson not said here | about stepson | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | stepson not said here | service | the king's palace | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in palace=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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