The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 50

The king’s son remained in the inn for some time, so as to let the young man have a good start; them he ordered his horse and rode after him.

Who acts: young man, son · What happens: remain, let, have, order, ride · To what, where: son, inn, young man, good start, horse

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 (young man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ordered	nsubj
5	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 son	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 inn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inn	det
8	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 let	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 let	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 son	appos
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 start	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 start	amod
23	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 ordered	punct
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ordered	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ordered	nsubj
27	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horse	nmod:poss
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ordered	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rode	cc
31	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ordered	conj
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rode	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	remain	participle		the king's son not said here		the inn	time	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in inn=Location
2	let	to-infinitive		the young man				tree rules
3	have	infinitive	the young man not said here	a good start				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient
4	order	past	the king's son		son's horse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
5	ride	past	the king's son not said here				after son	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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