English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 63
Next day they all set out for the king's court, and a gallant company they made.
Who acts: prisoners, gallant company · What happens: set out, make
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoners, gallant company), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 court | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 company | det |
| 15 | gallant | gallant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 company | compound |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | prisoners = prisoner | day | for the king's court; all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | a gallant company | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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