The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 10
One day he set forth from his capital, in order to make a journey through his kingdom.
Who acts: KING · What happens: set, make · To what, where: capital, journey, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 capital | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 capital | nmod:poss |
| 8 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 make | mark |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 in | fixed |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 journey | det |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 kingdom | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | KING | KING's capital | day | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | KING not said here | a journey | KING's kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product |
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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