The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 70
The prince returned before long, bringing with him his father and mother and a great train of courtiers to escort Ilonka home.
Who acts: prince · What happens: return, bring, escort · To what, where: father, Ilonka
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 (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 returned | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 returned | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | obl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mother | cc |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 train | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 train | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 train | amod |
| 17 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 courtiers | case |
| 19 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 train | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 escort | mark |
| 21 | escort | escort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bringing | advcl |
| 22 | Ilonka | Ilonka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 escort | obj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 escort | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the prince | before, long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | the prince not said here | Prince's father and mother and a great train of courtiers | with Prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination | |||
| 3 | escort | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | Ilonka | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ilonka=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 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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