The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 57

As soon as the King and his huntsmen saw the Roe with the golden collar they all rode off after it, but it was far too quick and nimble for them.

Who acts: King, huntsmen, collar · What happens: see, ride off, be · To what, where: Roe, golden collar

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huntsmen, collar), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 huntsmen	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 huntsmen	nmod:poss
8	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 King	conj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Roe	det
11	Roe	Roe	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 collar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 collar	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 collar	amod
15	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rode	nsubj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 rode	advmod
18	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 collar	acl:relcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 rode	compound:prt
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rode	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 quick	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 quick	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 quick	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 quick	cop
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 quick	advmod
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 quick	advmod
28	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 nimble	cc
30	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 quick	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 quick	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King and King's huntsmen	the Roe		with the golden collar; soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roe=Stimulus
2	ride off	past	huntsmen = huntsman	the golden collar not said here	after collar		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent collar=Location
3	is	past	collar			for huntsmen = huntsman; far, quick property	tree rules
4	be		collar not said here				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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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