The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 17
She travelled through many lands and saw many cities, and went through many hardships before she got to the town where the heathen king lived.
Who acts: idea, heathen king · What happens: travel, see, go, get, live · To what, where: many lands, many cities, many hardships
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, heathen king), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 lands | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lands | amod |
| 5 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travelled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cities | amod |
| 9 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 hardships | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hardships | amod |
| 15 | hardships | hardship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 got | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 lived | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 24 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 king | amod |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 town | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | idea | many lands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | idea not said here | many cities | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | idea not said here | many hardships | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hardship=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get | past | idea | to the town result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | ||||
| 5 | live | past | the heathen king | 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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