The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 20
Some of them were old favourites which the king had ridden in many wars, and they bore the signs of age and of service.
Who acts: Some, king, wars · What happens: be, ride, bear, sign · To what, where: old favourites, many wars, signs, age
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, king, wars), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 favourites | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 favourites | cop |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 favourites | amod |
| 6 | favourites | favourite | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ridden | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ridden | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ridden | aux |
| 11 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 favourites | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wars | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wars | amod |
| 14 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ridden | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bore | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bore | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bore | nsubj |
| 18 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ridden | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 signs | det |
| 20 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bore | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 age | case |
| 22 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 signs | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 service | cc |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 service | case |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 signs | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 favourites | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Some | old favourites | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · perfect | the king | old favourites | many wars | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | bear | past | wars = war | the signs of age and service | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sign | age | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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