The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 47
In winter, however, when it was difficult to get food and horses in that wild country, the army was dispersed, and the prince returned home.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, get, disperse, return · To what, where: food, wild country, army
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 winter | case |
| 2 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 difficult | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 winter | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 difficult | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 difficult | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 difficult | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 difficult | cop |
| 9 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 difficult | csubj |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 horses | cc |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 food | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 country | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dispersed | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 army | det |
| 21 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dispersed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dispersed | aux:pass |
| 23 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 difficult | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 returned | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 returned | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 returned | nsubj |
| 28 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dispersed | conj |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 returned | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | winter | difficult, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | food and horses | that wild country | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | disperse | past · passive | the army | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | return | past | the prince | home property | 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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