The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 57
When the King arrived there he turned the shoes as the Lord of the beasts had bidden him, and they went back.
Who acts: King, Lord, shoes · What happens: arrive, turn, bid, go back · To what, where: shoes, King
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 (King, Lord, shoes), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shoes | det |
| 9 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 turned | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 bidden | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lord | det |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bidden | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beasts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beasts | det |
| 15 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Lord | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bidden | aux |
| 17 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 turned | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bidden | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the King | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | King | the shoes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bid | past · perfect | the Lord of the beasts | King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | shoes = shoe | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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