The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 30
The young man thanked him, and said he would gladly take his advice; and early next morning he set out for the royal palace.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: thank, say, take, set out · To what, where: youth, advice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | nsubj |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 11 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 advice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 17 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 morning | advmod |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 morning | amod |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | nsubj |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 25 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 palace | amod |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the young man | youth | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | would | man | man's advice | gladly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | |||
| 4 | set out | past | man | morning | for the royal palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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