The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 247
The Prime Minister followed hastily, and tracked him all through the town to the cottage of the good old man; then he ran back to the King and told him that he had found out where all his dinners and suppers went.
Who acts: Prime Minister, Minister, dinners · What happens: follow, track, run back, tell, find out, go · To what, where: Minister · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prime Minister, Minister, dinners), 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 | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 4 followed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tracked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tracked | cc |
| 8 | tracked | track | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tracked | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 town | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tracked | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 cottage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cottage | det |
| 16 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 town | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cottage | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 ran | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | parataxis |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 ran | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 King | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ran | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 told | cc |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ran | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 told | iobj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 found | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 found | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 told | ccomp |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 found | compound:prt |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 went | advmod |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 dinners | det:predet |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 dinners | nmod:poss |
| 41 | dinners | dinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 went | nsubj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 suppers | cc |
| 43 | suppers | supper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 dinners | conj |
| 44 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Prime Minister | hastily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | track | past | the Prime Minister not said here | Minister | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run back | past | Minister | then | to the King result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Minister not said here | Minister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | find out | past · perfect | Minister | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | go | past | Minister's dinners and suppers | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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