The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 92
The minister’s son followed the rich stranger, whom he had not recognized.
Who acts: son · What happens: follow, not recognize · To what, where: rich stranger
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 (son), 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 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 minister | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stranger | amod |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 recognized | punct |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 recognized | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 recognized | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 recognized | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 recognized | advmod |
| 14 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 stranger | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the minister's son | the rich stranger | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not recognize | past · perfect | son | the rich stranger | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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