The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 50

When he had gone some distance he came to a mountain, where he met a man who was Lord over all the beasts in the forest—for they all came to him when he blew a horn which he had.

Who acts: place, man, beasts · What happens: go, come, meet, be, blow, have · To what, where: distance, mountain, man, beasts, Lord, place

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, man, beasts), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mountain	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mountain	det
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 met	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 Lord	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Lord	cop
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 man	acl:relcl
21	over	over	ADP	_	24 beasts	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 beasts	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beasts	det
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 met	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 they	det
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 blew	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 blew	nsubj
37	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 horn	det
39	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 blew	obj
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 horn	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	place	some distance				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
2	come	past	place			a mountain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
3	meet	past	place	a man		all beasts	in the forest	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
4	is a	past	a man	Lord				tree rules
5	come	past	beasts = beast		place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
6	blow	past	place	a horn				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
7	have	past	place	a horn				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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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