The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 1
Once upon a time the king of the Goldland lost himself in a forest, and try as he would he could not find the way out.
Who acts: king · What happens: lose, try, not find out · To what, where: king, forest, way
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 lost | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Goldland | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Goldland | det |
| 9 | Goldland | Goldland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 lost | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 try | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 try | cc |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lost | advcl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 find | advmod |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 try | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 find | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the king of the Goldland | king | a forest | time | once property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality | |
| 2 | try | infinitive | the king of the Goldland not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not find out | could | king | the way | out property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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