The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 27
The youth was thunderstruck at this command, but he only bowed, and went off at once to the stable.
Who acts: youth · What happens: thunderstruck, bow, go off · To what, where: youth, command
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 (youth), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thunderstruck | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thunderstruck | aux:pass |
| 4 | thunderstruck | thunderstruck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 command | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 command | det |
| 7 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thunderstruck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bowed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 bowed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bowed | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 bowed | advmod |
| 12 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thunderstruck | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bowed | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 stable | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stable | det |
| 21 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thunderstruck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunderstruck | past · passive | the youth | this command | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bow | past | youth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go off | past | youth not said here | to the stable | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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