The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 54

The first thing he did when he reached his native country was to hasten to the mill, where he found the three twigs as the sparrow had told him.

Who acts: prince, first thing · What happens: do, reach, be, find, tell · To what, where: first thing, native country, three twigs, sparrow, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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, first thing), 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 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hasten	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 country	nmod:poss
10	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 country	amod
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hasten	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hasten	mark
14	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mill	det
17	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hasten	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 found	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hasten	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 twigs	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 twigs	nummod
24	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 found	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 told	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sparrow	det
27	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 told	aux
29	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 found	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	prince	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	reach	past	prince	prince's native country			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme
3	is	past	the first thing			to the mill; hasten property	tree rules
4	find	past	prince	the three twigs			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the sparrow	prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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.

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