The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 37

At last he hit upon a plan, and told the king that the young man had boasted that he could bring home the king’s wife, who had vanished many months before, without leaving a trace behind her.

Who acts: horse, young man, wife · What happens: hit, tell, boast, bring, vanish, leave · To what, where: king, trace · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horse, young man, wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 plan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 boasted	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boasted	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 boasted	aux
18	boasted	boast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 bring	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bring	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bring	aux
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 boasted	xcomp
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 bring	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wife	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 king	case
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 vanished	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 vanished	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 vanished	aux
31	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 wife	acl:relcl
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 months	amod
33	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 before	obl:unmarked
34	before	before	ADV	_	31 vanished	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 leaving	punct
36	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 leaving	mark
37	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 vanished	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 trace	det
39	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leaving	obj
40	behind	behind	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 leaving	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hit	past	horse			upon a plan; at last	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at last=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	horse not said here		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	boast speech: other	past · perfect	the young man				vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring	could	horse			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	vanish	past · perfect	the king's wife			before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	gerund	the king's wife not said here	a trace		behind wife	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trace=Theme behind she=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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