The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 55
The king’s son explained the object of his journey, and the young man answered, as the other had done, that he also was fulfilling the vow of his mother made at his birth.
Who acts: son, young man, other, vow · What happens: explain, answer, do, fulfil, make, journey · To what, where: object, birth, mother · 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 (son, young man, other, vow), 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 | 5 explained | nsubj |
| 5 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 object | det |
| 7 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explained | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 object | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 answered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explained | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 done | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 done | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fulfilling | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fulfilling | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fulfilling | nsubj |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 fulfilling | advmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fulfilling | aux |
| 28 | fulfilling | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 done | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 vow | det |
| 30 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 mother | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 vow | nmod |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fulfilling | acl:relcl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 birth | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 birth | nmod:poss |
| 37 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | the king's son | the object of son's journey | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the other | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fulfil | past · progressive | son | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | past | the vow of son's mother | son's birth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | journey | son | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | vow | son's mother | nom vow «communication 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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