The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 19
The King had set guards before all the gates, and it was not possible to avoid his fate.
Who acts: it, King · What happens: set, not be, avoid, fate · To what, where: King, fate
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 gates | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gates | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gates | det |
| 9 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 possible | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 possible | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 possible | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 possible | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 possible | advmod |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 avoid | mark |
| 17 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 possible | csubj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 avoid | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the King | before all gates | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme guard=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | avoid | to-infinitive | King's fate | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fate=Location | |||||
| 4 | fate | King | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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