The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 25
The prince instantly gave chase, and where the stag led he followed, till at length he found himself in the depths of the forest, where no man before had trod.
Who acts: prince, stag, man · What happens: give, lead, follow, find, have · To what, where: chase, stag, depths, trod
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 (prince, stag, man), 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 | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 led | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stag | det |
| 10 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 led | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 led | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 found | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 depths | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 depths | det |
| 23 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 found | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 depths | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 had | advmod |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 man | det |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | nsubj |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 man | advmod |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 forest | acl:relcl |
| 33 | trod | trod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the prince | chase | instantly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the stag | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | stag | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | stag | stag | the depths of the forest | till length | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 5 | have | past | no man | trod | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trod=Patient |
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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