The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 44
Then the longing for his home came upon him with a rush, and in the morning he told the Queen of the Immortals that he must go and see his father and mother once more.
Who acts: longing, prince · What happens: come, tell, go, see · To what, where: Queen, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (longing, prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 longing | det |
| 3 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 longing | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 rush | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rush | det |
| 12 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 morning | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morning | det |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Queen | det |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Immortals | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Immortals | det |
| 24 | Immortals | Immortal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 Queen | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 told | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mother | cc |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 father | conj |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 more | advmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 see | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the longing for longing's home | then | upon prince; with a rush | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | prince | the Queen of the Immortals | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | go | must | prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | prince not said here | prince's father and mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
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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