The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 97

On receiving this message the boy dried his tears and went with the servant to the royal carriage.

Who acts: boy · What happens: receive, dry, go · To what, where: message, tears, royal carriage

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 receiving	mark
2	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 dried	advcl
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 message	det
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 receiving	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dried	nsubj
7	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tears	nmod:poss
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dried	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dried	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 servant	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 servant	det
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 carriage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 carriage	det
17	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 carriage	amod
18	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	gerund	the boy not said here	this message			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	dry	past	the boy	Boy's tears			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result
3	go	past	the boy not said here		the royal carriage	with the servant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to carriage=Initial_Location

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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