The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 58
They both took leave, and the King fully expected never to set eyes on them again.
Who acts: pipes, King · What happens: take, leave, not expect, set · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pipes, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expected | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 expected | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 expected | nsubj |
| 9 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 10 expected | advmod |
| 10 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 expected | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 expected | advcl |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | pipes = pipe | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | pipes = pipe not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not expect | past | the King | fully property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | the King not said here | eyes | again | on pipes = pipe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on they=Destination |
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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