The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 102
The horsemen kept the prince and his sheep in sight, without being seen themselves.
Who acts: horsemen · What happens: keep, see · To what, where: 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 (horsemen), 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 horsemen | det |
| 2 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sheep | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prince | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheep | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 seen | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 kept | advcl |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 seen | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the horsemen | the prince and emperor's sheep in sight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund · passive | the horsemen not said here | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: themselves=Stimulus |
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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