The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 19

Before long the old king died, and Niels reigned after him; but whether his father and mother stayed with him, or went back to the moor in Jutland, or were sent to Rome in a carriage and four, is something that all the historians of his reign have forgotten to mention.

Who acts: Niels, father, something, historians · What happens: long, die, reign, stay, go back, send · To what, where: old king, Rome, carriage, something

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, father, something, historians), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 long	mark
2	long	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 died	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	obj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reigned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 reigned	cc
9	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reigned	nsubj
10	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reigned	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stayed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 stayed	cc
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 stayed	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stayed	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mother	cc
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 father	conj
20	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stayed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stayed	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 moor	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 moor	det
29	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 Jutland	case
31	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 moor	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sent	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 sent	cc
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sent	aux:pass
35	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stayed	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 Rome	case
37	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sent	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 carriage	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 carriage	det
40	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sent	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 four	cc
42	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 carriage	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 something	punct
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 something	cop
45	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 sent	obl:agent
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 forgotten	obj
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 historians	det:predet
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 historians	det
49	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 forgotten	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 reign	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 reign	nmod:poss
52	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 historians	nmod
53	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 forgotten	aux
54	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 something	acl:relcl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 mention	mark
56	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 forgotten	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	long	gerund		the old king					tree rules
2	die	past							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	reign	past	Niels				after king		tree rules
4	stay	past	Niels's father and mother					with Niels	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
5	go back	past	Niels's father and mother not said here					to the moor in Jutland result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to moor=Result
6	send	past · passive	something		Rome	a carriage			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to rome=Destination
7	is a	present		something					tree rules
8	forget	present · perfect	all historians of Niels's reign						tree rules
9	not mention speech: other	to-infinitive	all historians of Niels's reign not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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