The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 90
The prince at once determined to seek the old woman on the top of the mountain, and lost no time in setting out.
What happens: seek, lose, set out · To what, where: old woman, top
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: 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 | 5 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 determined | obl |
| 5 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seek | mark |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 top | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 top | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lost | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lost | cc |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 determined | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 setting | mark |
| 23 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 lost | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 setting | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | to-infinitive | the old woman | the top of the mountain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent woman=Theme on top=Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set out | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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