The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 29

After hearing the youth’s story, and how he had nothing in the world left him except his cat, the old man advised him to go to the palace, which was only a few miles distant, and take counsel of the king, who was kind to everyone, and would certainly be his friend.

Who acts: nothing, man, old man, youth, palace, king · What happens: hear, have, leave, advise, go, be · To what, where: story, man, youth, palace, counsel, friend

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, man, old man, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 left	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 youth	case
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 had	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	advcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 left	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	nmod
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 left	obj
18	except	except	ADP	_	20 cat	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cat	nmod:poss
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 advised	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 advised	nsubj
25	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 advised	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 advised	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 palace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 palace	det
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 distant	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 distant	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 distant	cop
35	only	only	ADV	_	39 distant	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 miles	det
37	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 miles	amod
38	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 distant	obl:unmarked
39	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 palace	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 take	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 take	cc
42	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
43	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 take	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 king	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 king	det
46	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 counsel	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 kind	punct
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 kind	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 kind	cop
50	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 king	acl:relcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 everyone	case
52	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	50 kind	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 friend	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 friend	cc
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 friend	aux
56	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	59 friend	advmod
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 friend	cop
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 friend	nmod:poss
59	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 advised	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	nothing not said here	the youth's story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	have	past	man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past	nothing	man		except man's cat	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	advise speech: other	past	the old man	youth			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	youth not said here		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
6	is	past	the palace			a few miles obl:unmarked; distant property	tree rules
7	take	infinitive	youth not said here	counsel of the king			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
8	is	past	the king			to everyone; kind property	tree rules
9	is a	would	the old man not said here	man's friend		certainly property	tree rules

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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