The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 53
The King at once sent a servant to follow the dog, and in a short time the stranger was led into the Kings presence.
Who acts: King · What happens: send, follow, lead · To what, where: servant, dog, stranger, Kings presence
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 sent | obl |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 servant | det |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 follow | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 led | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stranger | det |
| 19 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 led | aux:pass |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sent | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 presence | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 presence | det |
| 24 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 presence | compound |
| 25 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the King | a servant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past · passive | the stranger | the Kings presence | time | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into presence=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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