The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 29
The prince would listen to nothing, and, accompanied by only one servant, set out on his quest.
Who acts: prince · What happens: listen, accompany, set out, quest · To what, where: quest
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 listen | aux |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 listen | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 accompanied | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 accompanied | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 accompanied | punct |
| 10 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 listen | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 servant | case |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 servant | nummod |
| 14 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accompanied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 accompanied | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 quest | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 quest | nmod:poss |
| 20 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | would | the prince | to nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accompany | participle | by one servant | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by servant=Destination | |||||
| 3 | set out | participle | prince's quest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | quest | prince | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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