The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 62
The man told him where he would find the palace, and how long it would take him to get there, and the prince thanked him, and followed his directions, till that same evening he reached the town where the dragon-emperor lived.
Who acts: man, prince, it, dragon emperor · What happens: tell, find, take, get, thank, follow · To what, where: prince, palace, man, directions, town · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, prince, it, dragon emperor), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 find | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 take | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | advcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thanked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thanked | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thanked | nsubj |
| 26 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thanked | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 followed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 followed | cc |
| 30 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 directions | nmod:poss |
| 32 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 followed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 reached | punct |
| 34 | till | till | ADP | _ | 37 evening | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 evening | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 evening | amod |
| 37 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reached | obl |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 reached | nsubj |
| 39 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 followed | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 town | det |
| 41 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 reached | obj |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 lived | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 emperor | det |
| 44 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 emperor | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 dragon | punct |
| 46 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lived | nsubj |
| 47 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 town | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the man | prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | would | prince | the palace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | would | it | prince | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | past | prince's directions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | |||||
| 7 | reach | past | prince | the town | evening | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | |||
| 8 | live | past | the dragon emperor | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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