The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 48

By this time twilight had fallen, so the prince washed himself in the lake, took the hawk on his shoulder and the pipes under his arm, and with his greyhounds before him and his flock behind him, marched gaily into the town, the princess following them all, still trembling with fright.

Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: fall, wash, take, march, follow, tremble · To what, where: prince, lake, hawk, shoulder, town, greyhounds

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, princess), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 twilight	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 twilight	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twilight	compound
4	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 washed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 washed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 washed	nsubj
11	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 washed	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 washed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 washed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hawk	det
19	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoulder	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulder	nmod:poss
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pipes	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pipes	det
25	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shoulder	conj
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 arm	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arm	nmod:poss
28	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 marched	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 marched	cc
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 greyhounds	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 greyhounds	nmod:poss
33	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 marched	obl
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 greyhounds	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 flock	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 flock	nmod:poss
38	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 him	conj
39	behind	behind	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 flock	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 greyhounds	punct
42	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
43	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	42 marched	advmod
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 town	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 town	det
46	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 marched	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 princess	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 princess	det
49	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 town	appos
50	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 princess	acl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 following	obj
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 marched	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 trembling	punct
54	still	still	ADV	_	55 trembling	advmod
55	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 marched	advcl
56	with	with	ADP	_	57 fright	case
57	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 trembling	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect					by this time twilight	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by twilight=Location
2	wash	past	the prince	prince	the lake			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	take	past	the prince not said here	the hawk	prince's shoulder and the pipes		under prince's arm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme on shoulder=Destination
4	march	past	the prince not said here				into the town result; with prince's greyhounds before prince; gaily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=Result
5	follow	gerund	the princess not said here	greyhounds = greyhound				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	tremble	gerund	the prince not said here			still	with fright	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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