The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 82
Directly he had ridden off the boy went to the room where the cage was kept, and never left it night and day.
Who acts: stepfather, boy · What happens: ride off, go, keep, not leave · To what, where: room, cage
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepfather, boy), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 ridden | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | aux |
| 4 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 kept | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cage | det |
| 14 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kept | aux:pass |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 room | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 left | advmod |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 day | cc |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 night | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | past · perfect | stepfather | directly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the boy | the room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · passive | the cage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not leave | past | the boy not said here | cage | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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