The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 126
He rode home, but he was so haunted by the song he had heard that he returned every day to the wood and listened.
Who acts: Prince, song · What happens: ride, haunt, hear, return, listen · To what, where: Prince, song · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, song), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 haunted | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 haunted | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 haunted | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 haunted | aux:pass |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 haunted | advmod |
| 9 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rode | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 song | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 song | det |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 haunted | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | aux |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 song | acl:relcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 returned | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | ccomp |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 listened | cc |
| 25 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 returned | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Prince | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | haunt | past · passive | the song | Prince | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Prince | the song not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | past | Prince | day | to the wood result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result | |||
| 5 | listen | past | Prince not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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