The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 86

When the king’s son reached the shrine of St. James he got down from his horse, took his friend in his arms as if he had been a child, and laid him before the altar.

Who acts: son · What happens: reach, get down, take, be, lay · To what, where: shrine, friend, arms, son, altar

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), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shrine	det
8	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 James	case
10	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 James	nmod:desc
11	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shrine	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 horse	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 horse	nmod:poss
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 arms	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 took	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	31 child	case
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 been	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 been	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 been	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 child	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 laid	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 laid	cc
34	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 laid	obj
36	before	before	ADP	_	38 altar	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 altar	det
38	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 laid	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the king's son	the shrine of James St.			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shrine=Theme
2	get down	past	son			from son's horse; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	take	past		son's friend	son's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Value in arm=Location
4	is	participle				as a child	tree rules
5	lay	past		son	the altar		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before altar=Destination

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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