The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 64
He felt puzzled and anxious; so he decided to ride into the country to distract his mind, and sent for his huntsmen and falconers.
Who acts: king · What happens: feel, decide, ride, distract, send, mind · To what, where: country, mind
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | puzzled | puzzled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 anxious | cc |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puzzled | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 decided | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 decided | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 decided | nsubj |
| 9 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ride | mark |
| 11 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 decided | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ride | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 distract | mark |
| 16 | distract | distract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ride | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 distract | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 huntsmen | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 24 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 falconers | cc |
| 26 | falconers | falconer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 huntsmen | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | king | puzzled property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | king | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ride not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | the country | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into country=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | distract | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's mind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | send | past | king not said here | for king's huntsmen and falconers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | mind | king | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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