The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 91
So he shot back the bolt, and the gold-bearded man stepped out into the world.
Who acts: prince, bearded man · What happens: shoot back, step out · To what, where: bolt, world
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 (prince, bearded 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 shot | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 shot | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bolt | det |
| 6 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shot | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stepped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stepped | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bearded | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 gold | punct |
| 12 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stepped | nsubj |
| 14 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 stepped | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stepped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot back | past | prince | the bolt | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step out | past | the bearded man | the world | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination |
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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