The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 6
So the princes went on their way, and a little wolf followed each of them.
Who acts: princes, little wolf · What happens: go, follow · To what, where: way, each
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 (princes, little wolf), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wolf | amod |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 followed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 each | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the princes | princes's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | a little wolf | each | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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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