The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 1

A king was once hunting in a great wood, and he hunted the game so eagerly that none of his courtiers could follow him.

Who acts: king, none · What happens: hunt, follow · To what, where: great wood, game, king

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, none), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunting	aux
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 hunting	advmod
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wood	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wood	amod
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hunted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hunted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hunted	nsubj
13	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunting	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 game	det
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunted	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 eagerly	advmod
17	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	13 hunted	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 follow	mark
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 follow	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 courtiers	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 courtiers	nmod:poss
22	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 none	nmod
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 follow	aux
24	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 eagerly	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 follow	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	a king		a great wood	once property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
2	hunt	past	king	the game		eagerly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
3	follow	could	none	king			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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