The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 32

So one day he put on the dress of a farm servant, threw a sack of peas on his back, and marched straight into the forest where eighteen years before his father had lost himself.

Who acts: king, father · What happens: put, throw, march, lose · To what, where: dress, sack, back, forest, king

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, father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 dress	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dress	det
8	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 servant	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 servant	det
11	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 servant	compound
12	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dress	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sack	det
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 peas	case
18	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sack	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 marched	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 marched	cc
24	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
25	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 forest	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 forest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forest	det
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marched	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 lost	advmod
30	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lost	obl:unmarked
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 lost	mark
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lost	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lost	aux
36	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 forest	acl:relcl
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 lost	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	king		the dress of a farm servant	day		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination
2	throw	past	king not said here	a sack of peas	king's back			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on back=Destination
3	march	past	king not said here				into the forest result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result
4	lose	past · perfect	king's father	king		year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality

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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