The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 44

The king saw them approach with fear in his heart, for he did not know if it might not be an enemy; but the prince rode up, and bowed low before him.

Who acts: king, silver, heart, prince · What happens: see, approach, not know, not be, ride up, bow · To what, where: silver, heart, enemy

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, silver, heart, prince), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 fear	case
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approach	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 heart	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 approach	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 know	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 approach	parataxis
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 enemy	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 enemy	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 enemy	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 enemy	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 enemy	cop
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 enemy	det
23	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	ccomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 rode	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 rode	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prince	det
27	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rode	nsubj
28	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 rode	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bowed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bowed	cc
32	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 rode	conj
33	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 bowed	advmod
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bowed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the king	silver				tree rules
2	approach	infinitive	silver not said here		king's heart		with fear	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fear=Instrument
3	not know	past · do-support	king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is a a condition, not said to happen	might	heart	a enemy				tree rules
5	ride up	past	the prince					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	bow	participle	the prince not said here			before king	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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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