The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 97
The king followed the youth’s directions, and, marking the foals, sent them back to Turkey, and there was no war that year.
Who acts: king, war · What happens: follow, mark, send back, be · To what, where: directions, foals, Turkey
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, war), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 directions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 youth | case |
| 7 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sent | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 foals | det |
| 13 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 marking | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 marking | punct |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 sent | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Turkey | case |
| 19 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 war | det |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 year | det |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 war | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the king | the youth's directions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | gerund | the foals | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foal=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send back | past | foals = foal | Turkey | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to turkey=Destination | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no war that year | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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