The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 103
With these words the king took Labakan’s arm to support him down the hill.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, support down · To what, where: arm, king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Labakan | case |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 support | mark |
| 11 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 support | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 support | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 support | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | Labakan's arm | with this words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | support down | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king | tree rules |
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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