The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 27
The King followed this advice, and the minister’s son was presented with a splendid horse and a purse full of gold pieces, while the gardener’s son had only an old lame horse and a purse full of copper money, and every one thought he would never come back from his journey.
Who acts: King, son, one · What happens: follow, present, have, think, not come back, journey · To what, where: advice, son, old lame horse, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, son, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 advice | det |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 presented | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 presented | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 minister | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presented | aux:pass |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 purse | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 purse | det |
| 20 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 horse | conj |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 purse | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pieces | compound |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gardener | det |
| 28 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 gardener | case |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presented | parataxis |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 horse | advmod |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 horse | det |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 horse | amod |
| 35 | lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 horse | compound |
| 36 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 purse | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 purse | det |
| 39 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 horse | conj |
| 40 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 purse | amod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 money | case |
| 42 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 money | compound |
| 43 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 full | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 thought | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 thought | cc |
| 46 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 one | det |
| 47 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 thought | nsubj |
| 48 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 had | conj |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 come | nsubj |
| 50 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 come | aux |
| 51 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 52 come | advmod |
| 52 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 thought | ccomp |
| 53 | back | back | ADV | _ | 52 come | advmod |
| 54 | from | from | ADP | _ | 56 journey | case |
| 55 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 journey | nmod:poss |
| 56 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 come | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the King | this advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | present | past · passive | the minister's son | with a splendid horse and a purse | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the gardener's son | a old lame horse and a purse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | every one | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not come back | would | king | king's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | journey | king | nom journey «act 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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