The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 68
Again the King’s son came out to meet her, tied her horse to a pillar, and led her into the banqueting hall.
Who acts: son · What happens: come out, meet, tie, lead · To what, where: girl, horse, banqueting hall
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:1511): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | 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 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tied | punct |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pillar | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pillar | det |
| 17 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 led | cc |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 hall | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hall | det |
| 24 | banqueting | banqueting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hall | compound |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | King's son | again | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | King's son not said here | girl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | King's son not said here | girl's horse | to a pillar | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to pillar=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | lead | past | King's son not said here | girl | the banqueting hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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