The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 97

He dismounted, and moved towards them; but his companions hurried after and begged him first to let them go and announce him to the king, and said that then, when they had put their possessions in a place of security, they would enter into the all important matter of the princess.

Who acts: sight, companions, drums, princess · What happens: dismount, move, hurry, beg, let, go · To what, where: sight, drums, king, possessions, place, important matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, companions, drums, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dismounted	nsubj
2	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moved	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 moved	cc
5	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dismounted	conj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moved	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 hurried	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hurried	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 companions	nmod:poss
11	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hurried	nsubj
12	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dismounted	parataxis
13	after	after	ADV	_	12 hurried	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 begged	cc
15	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hurried	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 begged	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 begged	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 let	mark
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 begged	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 announce	cc
23	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 announce	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 king	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 announce	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dismounted	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 then	mark
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 said	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 put	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 put	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 put	aux
37	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 said	conj
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 possessions	nmod:poss
39	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 put	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 place	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 place	det
42	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 security	case
44	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 place	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 enter	punct
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 enter	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 enter	aux
48	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dismounted	parataxis
49	into	into	ADP	_	53 matter	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 matter	det
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 matter	det
52	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 matter	amod
53	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 enter	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 princess	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 princess	det
56	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 matter	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dismounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dismount	past	sight						vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	move	past	sight not said here					towards drums = drum	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards they=Trajectory
3	hurry	past	sight's companions					after property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	sight's companions not said here		sight			first property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	let	to-infinitive	sight's companions not said here	drums = drum					tree rules
6	go	infinitive	drums = drum not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	announce speech: other	infinitive	drums = drum not said here	sight	the king				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Recipient
8	say speech: assert	past					then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	put	past · perfect	drums = drum	drums's possessions		a place of security			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent possession=Theme in place=Destination
10	enter	would	drums = drum			the important matter of the princess			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into matter=Initial_Location
11	possess		drums = drum						nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent
12	matter		the princess						nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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