The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 53
Then he left the field, and when the soldiers rode back they found him still sitting in the road making whole rows of little clay dolls.
Who acts: king, soldiers · What happens: leave, ride back, find, sit, make · To what, where: field, king, road, whole rows
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, soldiers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 rode | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldiers | det |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 rode | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 sitting | advmod |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 found | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sitting | obl |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sitting | conj |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rows | amod |
| 23 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 making | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dolls | case |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dolls | amod |
| 26 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dolls | compound |
| 27 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rows | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | king | the field | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride back | past | the soldiers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | soldiers = soldier | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | king not said here | the road | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | king not said here | whole rows of little clay dolls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset row=Product |
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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