The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 30
After this manner he comforted his mother, and on his eighteenth birthday his best horse was led to the door of the palace, and he took leave of the queen in these words, “Dear mother, farewell, and by the help of fate I shall return to you as soon as I can.”
Who acts: thing, son · What happens: comfort, lead, take, leave, return, help · To what, where: mother, best horse, eighteenth birthday, words, you, fate · 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 (thing, son), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comforted | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 comforted | nsubj |
| 5 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comforted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 led | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 birthday | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eighteenth | eighteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 birthday | amod |
| 13 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 led | aux:pass |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 comforted | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 door | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 took | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comforted | conj |
| 29 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 took | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 queen | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 queen | det |
| 32 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leave | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 words | case |
| 34 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 35 words | det |
| 35 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 leave | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mother | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 mother | punct |
| 38 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 mother | amod |
| 39 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 words | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 farewell | punct |
| 41 | farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 39 mother | discourse |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 return | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 return | cc |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 help | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 help | det |
| 46 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 return | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 fate | case |
| 48 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 help | nmod |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 return | nsubj |
| 50 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 return | aux |
| 51 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 comforted | parataxis |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 you | case |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 return | obl |
| 54 | as | as | ADV | _ | 55 soon | advmod |
| 55 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 return | advmod |
| 56 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 58 can | mark |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 can | nsubj |
| 58 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 soon | advcl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 return | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | thing | thing's mother | after this manner | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | thing's best horse | thing's eighteenth birthday | to the door of the palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on birthday=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | thing | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | thing not said here | in this words Dear mother result; of the queen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in word=Result | ||||
| 5 | return in a quote | shall | son | you | by the help of fate; soon property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to you=Result | |||
| 6 | help in a quote | fate | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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