The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 60

So one day, after dinner, he took his son by the arm and led him into another room, hung entirely with the pictures of beautiful maidens, each one more lovely than the other.

Who acts: father · What happens: take, lead, hang · To what, where: son, father, room

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 (father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 took	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dinner	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 arm	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arm	det
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 led	cc
16	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 led	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 led	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hung	punct
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
23	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	22 hung	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 pictures	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pictures	det
26	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hung	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 maidens	case
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 maidens	amod
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pictures	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 one	punct
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 maidens	appos
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 lovely	advmod
34	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 one	amod
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 other	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 other	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lovely	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	father		father's son		day	by the arm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination
2	lead	past	father not said here	father		another room			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=Destination
3	hang	past	father not said here					with the pictures of beautiful maidens; entirely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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