The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 46
The fox thanked him, and, taking the basket in his mouth, trotted off to the king’s palace and made his way straight to the king.
Who acts: fox · What happens: thank, take, trot off, make · To what, where: Boy, basket, mouth, palace, way
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 (fox), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 taking | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thanked | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 basket | det |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trotted | punct |
| 15 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 trotted | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trotted | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trotted | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 29 king | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the fox | Boy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the fox not said here | the basket | Boy's mouth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent basket=Value in mouth=Location | |||
| 3 | trot off | past | the king's palace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Boy's way | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
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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