The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 3
So the young man bowed and left the king’s presence, and followed after his friend on foot, for he had no horse.
Who acts: young man, king · What happens: bow, leave, follow, have · To what, where: presence, horse
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. 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, king), 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 | _ | 5 bowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | nsubj |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 followed | cc |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bowed | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 friend | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obl:agent |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 friend | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 had | case |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 horse | det |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the young man | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | the young man not said here | the king's presence | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | the young man not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | king | no horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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