The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 9
The youth thanked the magician, and fastening his treasures about him mounted the horse and rode off.
Who acts: youth, fastening, magician · What happens: thank, fasten, mount, ride off, treasure · To what, where: magician, treasures, horse
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, fastening, magician), 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 | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mounted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mounted | cc |
| 8 | fastening | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 mounted | csubj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 10 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fastening | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fastening | obl |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mounted | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rode | cc |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mounted | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 rode | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the youth | the magician | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten | gerund | magician's treasures | about magician | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | fastening | the horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride off | past | fastening not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | treasure | magician | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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