The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 56

While the King was at a banquet, Iwanich took some purses of gold, and mounting the quickest horse in the royal stable, he sped off like the wind without a single soul being any the wiser.

Who acts: King, Iwanich · What happens: be, take, mount, speed off · To what, where: banquet, purses, quickest horse, royal stable

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (King, Iwanich), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	7 banquet	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 banquet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 banquet	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 banquet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 banquet	det
7	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 banquet	punct
9	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 purses	det
12	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 purses	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mounting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mounting	cc
17	mounting	mount	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 took	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
19	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 horse	amod
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mounting	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 stable	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stable	det
23	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stable	amod
24	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mounting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sped	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sped	nsubj
27	sped	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 sped	compound:prt
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 wind	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wind	det
31	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sped	obl
32	without	without	ADP	_	35 soul	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 soul	det
34	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 soul	amod
35	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wiser	obl
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 wiser	cop
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 wiser	det
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wiser	det
39	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 sped	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King		a banquet		tree rules
2	take	past	Iwanich	some purses of gold			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
3	mount	gerund	Iwanich not said here	the quickest horse	the royal stable		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in stable=Destination
4	speed off	past	King			like the wind	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	gerund	King not said here			without a single soul; wise property	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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