The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 102
As soon as he had started the king went to the chamber of the prince, and said to him, “If you do not start immediately, you will never reach the place where you must camp for the night.”
Who acts: message, king · What happens: start, go, say, not start, not reach, camp · To what, where: chamber, message, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (message, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 started | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 started | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 started | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | aux |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 chamber | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chamber | det |
| 12 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chamber | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 start | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 start | punct |
| 23 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 start | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 start | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 start | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 start | advmod |
| 27 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 28 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 27 start | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reach | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 reach | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 reach | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 reach | advmod |
| 33 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 start | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 place | det |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reach | obj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 camp | advmod |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 camp | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 camp | aux |
| 39 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 place | acl:relcl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 night | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 night | det |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 camp | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · perfect | message | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the king | the chamber of the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | message | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | not start a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | message | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not reach in a quote | future | message | the place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 6 | camp in a quote | must | message | night | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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