The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 101
The youth put spurs to his horse and departed, bidding the prince farewell, so that the king’s message might be delivered the sooner.
Who acts: youth · What happens: put, depart, bid, deliver · To what, where: spurs, prince, message
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 departed | cc |
| 9 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bidding | punct |
| 11 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 departed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bidding | obj |
| 14 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 11 bidding | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 delivered | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 delivered | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 delivered | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 message | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 delivered | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 delivered | aux:pass |
| 24 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bidding | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sooner | det |
| 26 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 delivered | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the youth | spurs | to youth's horse | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal | |||
| 2 | depart | past | the youth not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the youth not said here | the prince | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | deliver | might · passive | the king's message | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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