The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 10

When this was over the slaves escorted him to the outer gate, and took leave of him with every mark of esteem and politeness, to which it is to be feared he responded but indifferently, since the gate was no sooner opened than he took to his heels, and fled away with all his might, his one idea being to put as much space as possible between himself and the dreary place into which he had ventured so rashly, just to consult a tedious Oracle who after all had told him nothing.

Who acts: this, slaves, Prince · What happens: be, escort, take, fear, respond, open · To what, where: slaves, Prince, outer gate, leave, much space, dreary place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (this, slaves, Prince), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 slaves	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 slaves	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slaves	cop
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 slaves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slaves	det
6	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 escorted	nsubj
7	escorted	escort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 escorted	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
11	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gate	amod
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escorted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 escorted	conj
16	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leave	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 mark	case
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 mark	det
21	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 esteem	case
23	esteem	esteem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mark	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 politeness	cc
25	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mark	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 feared	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 feared	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 feared	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 feared	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 feared	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 feared	aux:pass
33	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 took	conj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 responded	nsubj
35	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 feared	ccomp
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 indifferently	cc
37	indifferently	indifferently	ADV	_	33 feared	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 since	punct
39	since	since	ADP	_	15 took	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 gate	det
41	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 since	obj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 no	cop
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 gate	nmod
44	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 opened	advmod
45	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 no	acl:relcl
46	than	than	SCONJ	_	48 took	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 took	nsubj
48	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 opened	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 heels	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 heels	nmod:poss
51	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 took	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fled	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 fled	cc
54	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 opened	conj
55	away	away	ADV	_	54 fled	advmod
56	with	with	ADP	_	63 idea	case
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	63 idea	det:predet
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 idea	nmod:poss
59	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 idea	aux
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 idea	punct
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 idea	nmod:poss
62	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	63 idea	nummod
63	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fled	obl
64	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 fled	advcl
65	to	to	PART	_	66 put	mark
66	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 being	xcomp
67	as	as	ADV	_	68 much	advmod
68	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 space	amod
69	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 put	obj
70	as	as	SCONJ	_	71 possible	mark
71	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 put	advcl
72	between	between	ADP	_	73 himself	case
73	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	71 possible	obl
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 place	cc
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 place	det
76	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 place	amod
77	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 himself	conj
78	into	into	ADP	_	79 which	case
79	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	82 ventured	obl
80	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 ventured	nsubj
81	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	82 ventured	aux
82	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	77 place	acl:relcl
83	so	so	ADV	_	84 rashly	advmod
84	rashly	rashly	ADV	_	82 ventured	advmod
85	,	,	PUNCT	_	88 consult	punct
86	just	just	ADV	_	88 consult	advmod
87	to	to	PART	_	88 consult	mark
88	consult	consult	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	82 ventured	parataxis
89	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	91 Oracle	det
90	tedious	tedious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	91 Oracle	amod
91	Oracle	Oracle	PROPN	Number=Sing	88 consult	obj
92	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	96 told	nsubj
93	after	after	SCONJ	_	96 told	mark
94	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	96 told	nsubj:pass
95	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	96 told	aux
96	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	88 consult	parataxis
97	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	96 told	iobj
98	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	96 told	obj
99	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 escorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this			the slaves		tree rules
2	escort	past	the slaves	Prince		the outer gate		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gate=Destination
3	take	past	the slaves not said here	leave of Prince			with every mark of esteem and politeness	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
4	fear	present · passive		leave				tree rules
5	respond speech: other	past	Prince					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	open	past					soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	take	past	Prince				to Prince's heels result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
8	flee away	past					with Prince's one idea; away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	put	to-infinitive		much space				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent space=Goal
10	venture	past · perfect	Prince			the dreary place	rashly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
11	consult	to-infinitive		a tedious Oracle				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oracle=Theme
12	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		nothing	Prince			tree rules
13	mark			esteem				nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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