The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 9

Of course all his attendants followed at the best speed that they could manage; but the king was so splendidly mounted, and the stag was so swift, that, at the end of an hour, the king found that only his favourite hound and himself were in the chase; all the rest were far, far behind and out of sight.

Who acts: attendants, best speed, stag, king, favourite hound, rest · What happens: follow, manage, mount, be, find · To what, where: best speed, king, end, chase · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, best speed, stag, king), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	5 attendants	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 attendants	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 attendants	nmod:poss
5	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 speed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 speed	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 speed	amod
10	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 manage	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 manage	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 manage	aux
14	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 speed	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 mounted	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 mounted	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mounted	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 mounted	aux
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 mounted	advmod
21	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	22 mounted	advmod
22	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 followed	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swift	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swift	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stag	det
26	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 swift	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 swift	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 swift	advmod
29	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mounted	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 that	punct
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 swift	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 end	punct
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 end	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 end	det
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mounted	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 hour	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hour	det
38	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 found	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 king	det
41	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 found	nsubj
42	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 end	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 chase	mark
44	only	only	ADV	_	47 hound	advmod
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 hound	nmod:poss
46	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 hound	amod
47	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 chase	nsubj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 himself	cc
49	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 hound	conj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 chase	cop
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 chase	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 chase	det
53	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 found	ccomp
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 behind	punct
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	57 rest	det:predet
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 rest	det
57	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 behind	nsubj
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 behind	cop
59	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	62 behind	advmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 far	punct
61	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	62 behind	advmod
62	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 followed	advmod
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 sight	cc
64	out	out	ADP	_	66 sight	case
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 sight	case
66	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 behind	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	king's attendants		the best speed			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location
2	manage	could	the best speed					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mount	past · passive		the king		at the end of a hour	splendidly property	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at end=Destination
4	is	past	the stag				that obl; swift property	tree rules
5	find	past	the king					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	king's favourite hound		the chase			tree rules
7	is	past	all rest				behind, far property	tree rules

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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