The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 5
But the king’s son welcomed him with joy, and tended him as he would his brother.
Who acts: son · What happens: welcome, tend · To what, where: king
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 welcomed | cc |
| 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 welcomed | nsubj |
| 6 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 welcomed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 welcomed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tended | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tended | cc |
| 12 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 welcomed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tended | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 brother | aux |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tended | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | the king's son | king | with joy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | tend | past | the king's son not said here | king | as king's brother | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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