The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 4
So spake the old man, and the servants fled like the wind.
Who acts: you, servants · What happens: speak, flee · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (you, servants), 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 | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servants | det |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fled | nsubj |
| 10 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | advcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 wind | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the old man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | the servants | like the wind | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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