The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 101
This time, however, the emperor sent two men on horseback to ride behind him, with orders to watch the prince all day long.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: send, ride, watch · To what, where: two men, horseback, prince
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emperor | det |
| 7 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 horseback | case |
| 12 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ride | mark |
| 14 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ride | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 orders | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 orders | case |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ride | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 watch | mark |
| 21 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ride | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watch | obj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 watch | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the emperor | two men | horseback | time | however property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | behind emperor; with orders | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | the emperor not said here | the prince | day | long property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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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