English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, sentence 29
She had not travelled long before she saw a king hunting in the park with his nobles.
Who acts: third · What happens: not travell, see · To what, where: king hunting, park
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Heads of the Well. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 4 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hunting | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunting | compound |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 park | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 park | det |
| 14 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 nobles | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 park | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not travell | past · perfect | third | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | third | a king hunting | the park with prince's nobles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunting=Stimulus |
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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