The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 76

The following morning, when the dragon had left the mill, the prince came back, and the old woman told him all that the creature had said.

Who acts: prince, old woman · What happens: follow, leave, come back, tell, say · To what, where: dragon, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, old woman), 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	3 morning	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 morning	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 said	det:predet
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 said	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 creature	det
27	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 said	aux
29	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 told	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · perfect · passive		the dragon			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme mill=Attribute
3	come back	past	the prince			morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman		Dragon		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the creature			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/8/76/