The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 108
So the youngest prince set out to look for his brother, and he too lost his way in the wood and night overtook him.
Who acts: youngest prince, fox · What happens: set out, look, lose, overtake · To what, where: way, fox, wood
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 (youngest prince, 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 | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 brother | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lost | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 lost | advmod |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 overtook | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 night | cc |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wood | conj |
| 24 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lost | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 overtook | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the youngest prince | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the youngest prince not said here | for fox's brother | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | fox | fox's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | overtake | past | fox not said here | fox | the wood and night | tree rules |
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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