The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 12
So Prince Sigurd and the Prince of Greece collected an army swiftly, and marched upon the town where Blauvor had her palace.
Who acts: Sigurd, Blauvor · What happens: collect, march, have · To what, where: army, town, palace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sigurd, Blauvor), 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 collected | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sigurd | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Prince | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sigurd | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Greece | case |
| 8 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | nmod |
| 9 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 army | det |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collected | obj |
| 12 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 9 collected | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 marched | cc |
| 15 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 collected | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marched | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 had | advmod |
| 20 | Blauvor | Blauvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 town | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 palace | nmod:poss |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | Sigurd Prince and the Prince of Greece | a army | swiftly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 2 | march | past | Sigurd Prince and the Prince of Greece not said here | the town | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon town=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Blauvor | Blauvor's palace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient |
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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