The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 102
“Very well, I will accompany them,” replied the king; and he ordered his courtiers and attendants to get ready, and the best horses in his stable to be brought out for himself, Count Piro and the princess.
Who acts: king, best horses · What happens: accompany, reply, order, get, bring out, count · To what, where: preparations, courtiers, Piro · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, best horses), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 accompany | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 accompany | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 accompany | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 accompany | aux |
| 7 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 Count | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 accompany | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 accompany | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 accompany | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 accompany | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ordered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ordered | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ordered | nsubj |
| 17 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 accompany | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ordered | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 attendants | cc |
| 21 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 courtiers | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ordered | ccomp |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 get | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Count | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Count | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horses | det |
| 28 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 horses | amod |
| 29 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Count | nsubj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 stable | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 stable | nmod:poss |
| 32 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 horses | amod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 brought | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 brought | aux:pass |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 stable | advcl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 brought | compound:prt |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 himself | case |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 brought | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Count | punct |
| 40 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 41 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Count | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 princess | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 princess | det |
| 44 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Piro | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany in a quote | future | the king = king | preparations = preparation | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | order | past | king | king's courtiers and attendants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | bring out | to-infinitive · passive | the best horses not said here | for king | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» | ||||
| 6 | count | infinitive | the best horses | Piro and the princess | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piro=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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