The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 124
Thereupon the King’s son recognised the cinder wench; so he took both the girls with him, and set out.
Who acts: son · What happens: recognise, take, set out · To what, where: cinder wench, girls
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 recognised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognised | nsubj |
| 6 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wench | det |
| 8 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wench | compound |
| 9 | wench | wench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognised | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recognised | conj |
| 14 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 16 girls | cc:preconj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girls | det |
| 16 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the King's son | the cinder wench | thereupon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wench=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | son | the girls | with Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | |||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | son not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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