The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 24

One morning the emperor’s son went out to hunt, and he had not ridden far, before a deer started from under a grove of trees, and ran before him.

Who acts: morning son, son, deer · What happens: go out, hunt, not ride, start, run · To what, where: grove

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning son, son, deer), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	compound
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 emperor	det
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 emperor	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hunt	mark
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ridden	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ridden	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ridden	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ridden	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 ridden	advmod
16	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 went	parataxis
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ridden	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 started	punct
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 started	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 deer	det
21	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 started	nsubj
22	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ridden	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 grove	case
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 grove	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 grove	det
26	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 started	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 trees	case
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grove	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ran	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ran	cc
31	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ran	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the emperor's morning son			out property	tree rules
2	hunt	to-infinitive	the emperor's morning son not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not ride	past · perfect	son			far property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	start	past	a deer	a grove of trees			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	run	past	the emperor's morning son not said here		before deer		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory

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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