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The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 249

So he set out, accompanied by the Prime Minister and a guard of archers, and arrived just in time to find the old man and the Princess finishing his dinner.

Who acts: Minister, Princess · What happens: set out, accompany, arrive, find, finish · To what, where: old man, dinner

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 (Minister, Princess), 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

advmodnsubjcompound:prtpunctconjcasedetcompoundobl:agentccdetconjcasenmodpunctccconjadvmodcaseobjmarkacldetamodobjccdetconjaclnmod:possobjpunctrootSoADVhePRONsetVERBoutADP,PUNCTaccompaniedVERBbyADPtheDETPrimePROPNMinisterPROPNandCCONJaDETguardNOUNofADParchersNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJarrivedVERBjustADVinADPtimeNOUNtoPARTfindVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUNandCCONJtheDETPrincessNOUNfinishingVERBhisPRONdinnerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 setadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 setnsubj
3setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4outoutADP_3 setcompound:prt
5,,PUNCT_6 accompaniedpunct
6accompaniedaccompanyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 setconj
7bybyADP_10 Ministercase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Ministerdet
9PrimePrimePROPN_10 Ministercompound
10MinisterMinisterPROPNNumber=Sing6 accompaniedobl:agent
11andandCCONJ_13 guardcc
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 guarddet
13guardguardNOUNNumber=Sing10 Ministerconj
14ofofADP_15 archerscase
15archersarcherNOUNNumber=Plur13 guardnmod
16,,PUNCT_18 arrivedpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 arrivedcc
18arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 setconj
19justjustADV_21 timeadvmod
20ininADP_21 timecase
21timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing18 arrivedobj
22totoPART_23 findmark
23findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf21 timeacl
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 mandet
25oldoldADJDegree=Pos26 manamod
26manmanNOUNNumber=Sing23 findobj
27andandCCONJ_29 Princesscc
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Princessdet
29PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing26 manconj
30finishingfinishVERBVerbForm=Ger29 Princessacl
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 dinnernmod:poss
32dinnerdinnerNOUNNumber=Sing30 finishingobj
33..PUNCT_3 setpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1set outpastMinistervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2accompanyparticipleMinister not said herevn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3arrivepastMinister not said heretimevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4findto-infinitiveMinister not said herethe old man and the Princessvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
5finishgerundthe Princess not said hereMinister's dinnervn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dinner=Eventuality

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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