The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 5
The king then gave his parting orders and wise advice to his ministers, took a tender leave of his wife, and set off with his army across the seas.
Who acts: king, last · What happens: give, take, set off, order · To what, where: parting orders, ministers, tender leave, seas
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 (king, last), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 orders | nmod:poss |
| 6 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 orders | compound |
| 7 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 advice | cc |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 advice | amod |
| 10 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 orders | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ministers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 leave | det |
| 17 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leave | amod |
| 18 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 took | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 army | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 army | nmod:poss |
| 28 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 29 | across | across | ADP | _ | 31 seas | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 seas | det |
| 31 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 set | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | last's parting orders and wise advice | last's ministers | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to minister=Recipient | ||
| 2 | take | past | the king not said here | a tender leave of last's wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set off | infinitive | the king not said here | the seas | with last's army | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | order | last | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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