The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 86
Then he set out for the town, accompanied by his faithful beasts.
Who acts: water · What happens: set out, accompany · To what, where: 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: who acts (water), 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 | 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 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 accompanied | punct |
| 9 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 town | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 beasts | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beasts | amod |
| 13 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | water | then | for the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | accompany | participle | the town not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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