The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 92

The brothers Simon came on board to conduct the princess to their ship, and, led by the brothers and followed by her nurse and other women, she crossed the crystal plank from one vessel to another.

Who acts: brothers, princess · What happens: come, conduct, lead, follow, cross · To what, where: board, princess, ship, crystal plank, another, one vessel

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brothers	appos
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 board	case
6	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 conduct	mark
8	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conduct	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ship	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ship	nmod:poss
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conduct	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 led	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 led	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 led	punct
17	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 brothers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brothers	det
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 led	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 followed	cc
22	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 led	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 nurse	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nurse	nmod:poss
25	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 followed	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 women	cc
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 women	amod
28	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 nurse	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crossed	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 crossed	nsubj
31	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 plank	det
33	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 plank	amod
34	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crossed	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 vessel	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 vessel	nummod
37	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crossed	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 another	case
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 crossed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the brothers			board		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Location
2	conduct	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	the princess		soldiers's ship		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to ship=Destination
3	lead	participle					by the brothers	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by brother=Destination
4	follow	participle					by princess's nurse and other women	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by nurse=Location
5	cross	past	princess	the crystal plank	another	one vessel		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plank=Patient to another=Recipient

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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