The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 10
Then he signed to one of his attendants, who followed the path that the boy had taken to the hut.
Who acts: king, attendants, path · What happens: sign, follow, take · To what, where: one, path, boy
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, attendants, path), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 signed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 signed | nsubj |
| 3 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 signed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 attendants | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 8 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 attendants | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 path | det |
| 13 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 taken | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 path | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 hut | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hut | det |
| 21 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | king | one of king's attendants | then | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | |||
| 2 | follow | past | king's attendants | the path | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | the path not said here | the boy | to the hut | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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