The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 70
As soon as the king heard this song he ran out to meet the lute player, took him by the hand and led him into the palace.
Who acts: king, song · What happens: hear, run out, meet, take, lead · To what, where: song, lute player, palace
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, song), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 ran | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 song | det |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ran | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 player | det |
| 15 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 player | compound |
| 16 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hand | det |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 led | cc |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 led | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king | this song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run out | past | song | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | song not said here | the lute player | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | song not said here | song | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 5 | lead | past | song not said here | song | the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into palace=Destination |
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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