The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 9

Left to himself the Prince soon forgot the wise counsels of his mother, and feeling very much bored with his own company, he ordered some of the spirits of the air to carry him to the court of a neighbouring sovereign.

Who acts: Prince, man · What happens: leave, forget, feel, order, carry, neighbour · To what, where: man, wise counsels, some, court

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 (Prince, man), 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	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 forgot	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 himself	case
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Left	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forgot	nsubj
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 forgot	advmod
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 counsels	det
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 counsels	amod
10	counsels	counsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forgot	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counsels	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ordered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ordered	cc
16	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ordered	advcl
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 bored	advmod
19	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feeling	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 company	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 company	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 company	amod
23	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bored	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feeling	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ordered	nsubj
26	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forgot	parataxis
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 ordered	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 spirits	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spirits	det
30	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 some	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 air	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spirits	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 carry	mark
35	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ordered	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carry	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 court	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 court	det
39	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 carry	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 sovereign	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 sovereign	det
42	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 sovereign	amod
43	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 court	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	participle	the Prince not said here		man			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location
2	forget	past	the Prince	the wise counsels of man's mother			soon property	tree rules
3	feel	gerund	man not said here				bored property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	order	past	man	some				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
5	carry	to-infinitive	man not said here	man		the court of a neighbouring sovereign		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination
6	neighbour	gerund						tree rules

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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