The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 103
So he set out, followed by his beasts, and came to the town over which his brother had ruled, and where the princess he had married lived.
Who acts: fox · What happens: set out, follow, come, rule, marry, live · To what, where: town, brother, princess
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 set | parataxis |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 beasts | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 followed | obl:agent |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ruled | obl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ruled | aux |
| 21 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 town | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 married | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 married | cc |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 married | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 married | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 married | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 married | aux |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 came | conj |
| 30 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 married | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | rule | past · perfect · passive | fox's brother | the town | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | live | participle | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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