The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 140
Then the three princes set off together to the town.
What happens: set off · To what, where: three princes, town
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 princes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princes | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 princes | nummod |
| 4 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 princes | acl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 princes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | participle | the three princes not said here | the town | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location |
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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