The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 56

“Well, we can ride on together,” said the king’s son, and the road seemed much shorter now that he had some one to talk to.

Who acts: we, son, road · What happens: ride, say, seem, have, talk · To what, where: one · 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 (we, son, road), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 ride	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 ride	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ride	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ride	aux
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 together	case
8	together	together	ADV	_	6 ride	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ride	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ride	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 shorter	advmod
22	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 seemed	xcomp
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 shorter	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seemed	advcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 talk	mark
30	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 one	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 talk	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ride in a quote	can	we			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the king's son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem	past	the road		short property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	son	some one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	talk	to-infinitive	son not said here	some one not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP 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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