The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 180
They marched in force to the palace and took the old magician and his son prisoners.
Who acts: people · What happens: march, take · To what, where: force, old magician
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | 2 marched | nsubj |
| 2 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 force | case |
| 4 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marched | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marched | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 marched | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 magician | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 magician | amod |
| 12 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prisoners | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prisoners | compound |
| 16 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 magician | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | people | force | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | |||
| 2 | take | past | people not said here | the old magician and arrival's son prisoners | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=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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