The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 111
He turned and went home, followed by the young man, who felt highly pleased with his own cleverness.
Who acts: sound, young man · What happens: turn, go, follow, feel
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, young man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 16 pleased | advmod |
| 16 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 felt | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 cleverness | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cleverness | amod |
| 20 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pleased | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | sound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | sound not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | by the young man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by man=Location | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | the young man | pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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