The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 13
So next morning at sunrise the youth set forth, and in a few days he reached the Sultan’s palace.
Who acts: youth · What happens: set, reach · To what, where: youth, palace
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 (youth), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 So | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sunrise | case |
| 5 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sunrise | obj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 youth | acl |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 set | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reached | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sultan | det |
| 19 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Sultan | case |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the youth not said here | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | youth | the Sultan's palace | day | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=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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