The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 132
So on the following day, at dusk, he went to the foot of the tower and cried:
Who acts: Prince · What happens: follow, go, cry · To what, where: foot
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dusk | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 dusk | case |
| 8 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 foot | det |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tower | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 foot | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | Prince | the foot of the tower | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Prince not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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