The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 104

When the lad was about eighteen years old his father had to go to fight in a war against a neighbouring country, and the king led his troops in person.

Who acts: lad, old father, king · What happens: be, have, go, fight, neighbour, lead · To what, where: war, troops

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, old father, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 old	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 eighteen	advmod
6	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fight	mark
15	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 war	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 war	det
18	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fight	obl
19	against	against	ADP	_	22 country	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 country	det
21	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 country	amod
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fight	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 led	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 led	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 led	nsubj
27	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 troops	nmod:poss
29	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 led	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 person	case
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 led	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lad			year	old property	tree rules
2	have	past	king's old father					tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	king's old father not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fight	to-infinitive	king's old father not said here		a war		against a neighbouring country	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
6	lead	past	the king	king's troops			in person	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent troops=Theme in person=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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