The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 87
Then he left the palace and went to the market-place, where he bought two greyhounds, a hawk, and a set of pipes; after that he took the sheep out to pasture.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: leave, go, buy, take out, pasture · To what, where: palace, market place, two greyhounds, sheep
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 market | punct |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bought | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 bought | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bought | nsubj |
| 16 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 greyhounds | nummod |
| 18 | greyhounds | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bought | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hawk | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hawk | det |
| 21 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greyhounds | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 set | det |
| 25 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pipes | case |
| 27 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 set | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 29 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 32 took | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 after | fixed |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 took | nsubj |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sheep | det |
| 34 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 took | obj |
| 35 | out | out | ADV | _ | 32 took | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 pasture | mark |
| 37 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 took | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | emperor | the palace | then | a set of pipes obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | emperor not said here | the market place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | buy | past | emperor | two greyhounds and a hawk | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take out | past | emperor | the sheep | out property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | |||
| 5 | pasture | to-infinitive | emperor not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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