The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 84
So the king, seeing no words would move him, ordered a horse to be brought round, and the king’s son mounted it, and took his dead friend before him on the saddle, and rode away.
Who acts: king, son · What happens: see, move, order, bring round, mount, take · To what, where: words, son, horse, vow, dead friend, saddle
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 (king, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 move | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 king | acl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seeing | obj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | aux |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 move | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 brought | aux:pass |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ordered | ccomp |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mounted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mounted | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mounted | nsubj |
| 25 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mounted | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mounted | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 friend | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 friend | amod |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 saddle | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 saddle | det |
| 37 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rode | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rode | cc |
| 40 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | conj |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 rode | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the king not said here | no words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | move | would | the king | son | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | past | a horse | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring round not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | round property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | |||||
| 5 | mount | past | the king's son | vow | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | take | past | the king's son not said here | son's dead friend | the saddle | before son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent friend=Theme before he=Destination | ||
| 7 | ride away | past | the king's son not said here | away property | 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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