The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 52

He had not been there long when his father arrived and took up his place near the middle of the bridge, and soon after the king came by, followed by a troop of guards and all his court.

Who acts: Tanuki, father, king · What happens: have, not be, arrive, take up, come by, follow · To what, where: place, middle

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tanuki, father, king), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 there	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 arrived	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 arrived	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	nsubj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 place	nmod:poss
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	near	near	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 bridge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bridge	det
21	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 middle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 king	advmod
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 king	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
29	by	by	ADP	_	28 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 followed	punct
31	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 came	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 troop	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 troop	det
34	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 followed	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 guards	case
36	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 troop	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 court	cc
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 court	det:predet
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 court	nmod:poss
40	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 guards	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Tanuki				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle				there property	tree rules
3	arrive	past	Tanuki's father			long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take up	past	Tanuki's father not said here	Tanuki's place	the middle of the bridge		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	come by	past	the king				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	participle	the king not said here			by a troop of guards and Tanuki's court	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by troop=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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