The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 18

He found that a secret way led from it into the forest; and following the path, he reached another castle larger and more splendid than the one belonging to the robbers.

Who acts: prince, one · What happens: find, lead, follow, reach, belong · To what, where: secret way, way, path, castle

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 way	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	ccomp
7	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 way	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 led	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 following	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 following	cc
15	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 path	det
17	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 following	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 castle	det
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
23	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 reached	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 splendid	cc
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 splendid	advmod
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 larger	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 splendid	obl
30	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 one	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 robbers	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 robbers	det
33	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 belonging	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	prince				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	lead	participle		a secret way not said here	way	into the forest	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from it=Destination
3	follow	gerund	prince not said here	the path			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
4	reach	past	prince	another castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
5	belong	gerund	the one not said here			to the robbers	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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