The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 4
They were lucky enough to escape the soldiers of King Bruin, and at last, after unheard-of fatigues and adventures, they found themselves in a charming green valley, through which flowed a stream clear as crystal and overshadowed by beautiful trees.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, escape, find, flow, overshadow · To what, where: soldiers, King, charming green valley, stream
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lucky | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | cop |
| 3 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 lucky | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 escape | mark |
| 6 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lucky | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiers | det |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 escape | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Bruin | case |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bruin | compound |
| 11 | Bruin | Bruin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 soldiers | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 last | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lucky | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unheard | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 unheard | case |
| 18 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 last | conj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 unheard | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fatigues | case |
| 21 | fatigues | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 unheard | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 adventures | cc |
| 23 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fatigues | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | parataxis |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 found | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 valley | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 valley | det |
| 30 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 valley | compound |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 valley | amod |
| 32 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 flowed | punct |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 flowed | nsubj |
| 36 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 stream | det |
| 38 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flowed | obj |
| 39 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 flowed | xcomp |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 crystal | case |
| 41 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flowed | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 overshadowed | cc |
| 43 | overshadowed | overshadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 crystal | conj |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 trees | case |
| 45 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 trees | amod |
| 46 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 overshadowed | obl:agent |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | enough, lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | King not said here | the soldiers of King Bruin | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soldier=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | King | King | a charming green valley | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 5 | flow | past | a stream | as crystal; clear property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme | ||||
| 6 | overshadow | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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