The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 49

As he approached the borders of his father’s country word of his coming went before him, and all the city came forth to give him welcome.

Who acts: Prince, borders, city, father · What happens: approach, come, go, give, word · To what, where: country word, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, borders, city, father), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 approached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 borders	det
5	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 went	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 word	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 word	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 word	compound
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 borders	nmod
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 coming	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 coming	nsubj
14	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 word	acl
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 approached	ccomp
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 city	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 approached	conj
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 give	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	Prince					tree rules
2	come	gerund	Prince	Prince's father's country word not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
3	go	past	the borders of Prince's father's country word			before Prince		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location
4	come	past	all city				forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive	all city not said here		Prince		welcome property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	word		Prince's father					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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