The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 84
Very unwillingly the young man put on the coat and mounted the horse, and rode up to meet the king, with the fox running before him.
Who acts: fox · What happens: put, mount, ride up, meet, run · To what, where: young man, horse, king
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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 unwillingly | advmod |
| 2 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 11 mounted | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 unwillingly | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 coat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coat | det |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl:agent |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mounted | cc |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mounted | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 rode | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rode | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meet | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fox | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 fox | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fox | det |
| 25 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meet | obl |
| 26 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 fox | acl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 running | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the young man not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mount | past | the horse | unwillingly property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride up | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the king | with the fox | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Theme with fox=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | run | gerund | the fox not said here | before fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory |
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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