The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 5
So when Thursday evening came, Ritter Red accompanied the Princess to the sea-shore; for there she was to meet the Troll, and Ritter Red was to stay with her and protect her.
Who acts: Thursday evening, Ritter, Princess, Ritter Red · What happens: come, accompany, be, protect · To what, where: Princess, sea shore
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thursday evening, Ritter, Princess, Ritter Red), 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 | _ | 9 accompanied | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | compound |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 accompanied | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 accompanied | nsubj |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ritter | flat |
| 9 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accompanied | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shore | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sea | punct |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accompanied | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 there | case |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 meet | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 meet | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 accompanied | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Troll | det |
| 25 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stay | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stay | cc |
| 28 | Ritter | Ritter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Red | compound |
| 29 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 stay | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stay | cop |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 stay | mark |
| 32 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 meet | parataxis |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stay | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 protect | cc |
| 36 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 stay | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 protect | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Thursday evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | accompany | past | Ritter | the Princess | the sea shore | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | Princess | meet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Ritter Red | with Princess; stay property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | protect | infinitive | Ritter Red not said here | Princess | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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