The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 47

Now as nobody had appeared to demand the hand of the princess, the king ordered another race to be run, and the fisher’s son rode into the field still more splendidly dressed than he was before, and easily distanced everybody else.

Who acts: nobody, king, son, race · What happens: appear, demand, order, run, ride, dress · To what, where: hand, race, field, everybody

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, king, son, race), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 appeared	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 appeared	mark
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 appeared	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	aux
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 demand	mark
7	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 appeared	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hand	det
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demand	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 princess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ordered	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ordered	nsubj
16	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 demand	advcl
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 race	det
18	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ordered	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 run	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 run	aux:pass
21	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ordered	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rode	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rode	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fisher	det
25	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 fisher	case
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rode	nsubj
28	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	parataxis
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 field	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 field	det
31	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rode	obl
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 dressed	advmod
34	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	35 dressed	advmod
35	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 rode	advcl
36	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 before	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 before	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 before	cop
39	before	before	ADV	_	35 dressed	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 distanced	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 distanced	cc
42	easily	easily	ADV	_	43 distanced	advmod
43	distanced	distance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rode	conj
44	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	43 distanced	obj
45	else	else	ADV	_	44 everybody	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past · perfect	nobody			now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	demand speech: request	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	the hand of the princess				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Precondition
3	order	past	the king	another race				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent race=Recipient clause=Topic
4	run not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the king not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»
5	ride	past	the fisher's son		the field			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into field=Trajectory
6	dress	participle	the fisher's son not said here				splendidly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	race				before property	tree rules
8	distance	past	the fisher's son not said here	everybody			easily 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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