The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 4
He rode on for some weeks without meeting with any adventures; but one night when he was resting at an inn, he came across another traveller, with whom he fell into conversation, in the course of which the stranger inquired if he never played cards.
Who acts: king, stranger · What happens: ride on, meet, rest, come, fall, inquire · To what, where: inn, conversation, cards
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 (king, stranger), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 rode | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 weeks | det |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rode | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 meeting | mark |
| 8 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rode | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 adventures | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 adventures | det |
| 11 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meeting | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 night | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 night | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 night | nummod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 resting | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 resting | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 resting | aux |
| 19 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 night | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 inn | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 inn | det |
| 22 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 26 | across | across | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 traveller | det |
| 28 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fell | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 whom | case |
| 31 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 fell | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fell | nsubj |
| 33 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 conversation | case |
| 35 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 course | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 course | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 course | det |
| 39 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 inquired | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stranger | det |
| 43 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 inquired | nsubj |
| 44 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 course | acl:relcl |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 played | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 played | nsubj |
| 47 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 48 played | advmod |
| 48 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 inquired | advcl |
| 49 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 played | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride on | past | king | night; week | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | gerund | king not said here | with any adventures | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | rest | past · progressive | king | a inn | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at inn=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | past | king | across property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | king | conversation | in the course | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in course=Location | |||
| 6 | inquire speech: other | past | the stranger | of the course | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of which=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | not play a condition, not said to happen | past | king | cards | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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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