The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 197
So they all set out, guided by birds, and after some days came to the cave where the unfortunate Prince had been chained up for nearly seven years.
Who acts: princes · What happens: set out, guide, come, chain up · To what, where: cave, unfortunate Prince
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes), 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 | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guided | punct |
| 7 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 set | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guided | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 days | det |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 cave | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cave | det |
| 18 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 chained | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 21 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Prince | amod |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 chained | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 chained | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 chained | aux:pass |
| 25 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cave | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 chained | compound:prt |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 28 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 29 seven | advmod |
| 29 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 chained | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | present | princes = prince | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guide | participle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the cave | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | chain up | past · perfect · passive | the unfortunate Prince | year | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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