The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 4
Night and day he ran, till at length he reached the place where the king’s son had pitched his tent, and sank down before him, a miserable object, worn out and covered with mud and dust.
Who acts: king · What happens: run, reach, pitch, sink down, wear out, cover · To what, where: place, length, son, miserable object
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 (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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 day | cc |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Night | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 pitched | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pitched | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pitched | aux |
| 20 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tent | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pitched | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sank | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sank | cc |
| 25 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 sank | compound:prt |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sank | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 object | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 object | det |
| 31 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 object | amod |
| 32 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sank | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 worn | punct |
| 34 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 object | acl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 worn | compound:prt |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 covered | cc |
| 37 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 worn | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 mud | case |
| 39 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 covered | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dust | cc |
| 41 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mud | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | king | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | king | the place | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 3 | pitch | past · perfect · passive | the king's son | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination tent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sink down | past | king not said here | a miserable object | before king | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | wear out | participle | a miserable object not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cover | participle | with mud and dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=Theme |
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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