The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 1
A King’s son once had a great desire to travel through the world, so he started off, taking no one with him but one trusty servant.
Who acts: son · What happens: have, travel, start off, take · To what, where: great desire, world, one
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 had | advmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desire | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desire | amod |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 travel | mark |
| 11 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 desire | acl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travel | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 started | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 started | nsubj |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 started | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taking | punct |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 started | advcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taking | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 servant | cc |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 servant | nummod |
| 28 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 servant | amod |
| 29 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a King's son | a great desire | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | |||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | a King's son not said here | a great desire not said here | the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | start off | past | son | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | son not said here | no one but one trusty servant | with son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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