The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 31
So, under pretence of visiting some small islands that belonged to his father, he set out.
Who acts: pretence, small islands, King · What happens: visit, belong, set out · To what, where: small islands, pretence
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretence, small islands, 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 | _ | 17 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 pretence | case |
| 4 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 visiting | mark |
| 6 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 pretence | acl |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 islands | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 islands | amod |
| 9 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 visiting | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 belonged | nsubj |
| 11 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 islands | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belonged | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pretence | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | pretence not said here | some small islands | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | some small islands | to King's father | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | King | pretence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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