The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 8
So the stranger left him, but the king followed path after path for three whole days, with no better success than before.
Who acts: stranger, king · What happens: leave, follow · To what, where: dog, path
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 (stranger, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 followed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obj |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 path | case |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 followed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 success | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 success | case |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 success | det |
| 21 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 success | amod |
| 22 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 before | case |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 success | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the stranger | dog | with no better success | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with success=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the king | path | after path; day | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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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