The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 82

Having promised this, he joyfully returned home, and as he was riding through the forest he could perfectly understand all that the birds said.

Who acts: prince, birds · What happens: have, promise, return, ride, understand, say · To what, where: this, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, birds), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 returned	advcl
2	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 promised	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 returned	nsubj
6	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	7 returned	advmod
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 returned	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 understand	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 understand	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 riding	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 riding	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 riding	aux
14	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 understand	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 riding	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 understand	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 understand	aux
20	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	21 understand	advmod
21	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 returned	parataxis
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 said	det:predet
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 birds	det
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 understand	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	prince not said here				tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	participle	prince not said here	this			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent this=Theme
3	return	past	prince			home, joyfully property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride	past · progressive	prince		the forest		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory
5	understand	could	prince			perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	past	the birds				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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