The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 4
About this time the King of a very powerful kingdom was carrying on a war; the youth therefore took service under him and went on the campaign.
Who acts: King, youth · What happens: carry, take, go · To what, where: war, service, campaign
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 (King, youth), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 powerful | advmod |
| 9 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carrying | aux |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 war | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 war | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 19 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carrying | parataxis |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 campaign | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 campaign | det |
| 28 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | the King of a powerful kingdom | a war | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past | the youth | service | under King; therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | the youth not said here | the campaign | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on campaign=Location |
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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