The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 124
Calling his beasts round him, he set out and wandered through the woods.
Who acts: master · What happens: call, set out, wander · To what, where: beasts, woods · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master), 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 | Calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 set | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Calling | obj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Calling | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Calling | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wandered | cc |
| 11 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woods | det |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wandered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | master not said here | master's beasts | round master | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient | |||
| 2 | set out | past | master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | master not said here | the woods | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |
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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