The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 28
Taking the loaves in his arm he followed the boy, and, bowing low, laid them down before the king.
Who acts: prince, Taking · What happens: take, follow, bow, lay down · To what, where: loaves, arm, boy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Taking), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 laid | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 loaves | det |
| 3 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 arm | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arm | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bowing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bowing | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bowing | punct |
| 14 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Taking | conj |
| 15 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 bowing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 laid | compound:prt |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the loaves | prince's arm | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent loaf=Value in arm=Location | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | prince | the boy | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bow | gerund | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lay down | past | Taking | loaves = loaf | before the king | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before king=Destination |
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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