The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 86
They took the road again at dawn the next morning, and soon reached a town, where Friedlin equipped himself as a gallant wooer should.
Who acts: nails, Friedlin · What happens: take, reach, equip · To what, where: road, town, Friedlin
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nails, Friedlin), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dawn | case |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 reached | advmod |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 equipped | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 equipped | advmod |
| 19 | Friedlin | Friedlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 equipped | nsubj |
| 20 | equipped | equip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 town | acl:relcl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 equipped | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 should | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wooer | det |
| 24 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wooer | amod |
| 25 | wooer | wooer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 should | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 equipped | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | nails = nail | the road | again; dawn; morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past | nails = nail not said here | a town | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme | |||
| 3 | equip | past | Friedlin | Friedlin | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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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