The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 86

When the Prince set forth on his travels it was but natural that this devoted couple should accompany him, and accordingly he started with them and attended by a numerous retinue.

Who acts: Prince, devoted couple · What happens: set, travel, be, accompany, start, attend · To what, where: natural, care, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, devoted couple), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 travels	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 travels	nmod:poss
8	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 set	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 travels	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 it	cop
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 natural	cc
12	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 travels	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 accompany	mark
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 couple	det
15	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 couple	amod
16	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 accompany	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 accompany	aux
18	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 natural	csubj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 accompany	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 started	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 started	cc
22	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	24 started	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 started	nsubj
24	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 started	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 attended	cc
28	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 started	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 retinue	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 retinue	det
31	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 retinue	amod
32	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attended	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	the Prince		forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	travel	present	the Prince not said here	natural		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		care		tree rules
4	accompany	should	this devoted couple	Prince		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	start	past	Prince		with husband; accordingly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality
6	attend	participle	Prince not said here		by a numerous retinue	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by retinue=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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