The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 36
Just at this lucky moment who should arrive but King Merlin’s son, who had become uneasy at not receiving any news from his Ambassador, and so had started himself with a magnificent escort of a thousand horsemen, and thirty body-guards in gold and scarlet uniforms, to see what could have happened.
Who acts: son · What happens: arrive, become, not receive, start, see, happen · To what, where: news, Ambassador, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 8 arrive | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrive | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 arrive | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrive | aux |
| 8 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 become | cc |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | flat |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 become | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 become | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrive | conj |
| 18 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 become | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 21 receiving | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 receiving | advmod |
| 21 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 uneasy | advcl |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 news | det |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 receiving | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Ambassador | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Ambassador | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 news | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 started | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 started | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 started | advmod |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 started | aux |
| 31 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 arrive | conj |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 started | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 escort | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 escort | det |
| 35 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 escort | amod |
| 36 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 started | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 horsemen | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 thousand | det |
| 39 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 horsemen | nummod |
| 40 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 escort | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 guards | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 guards | cc |
| 43 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 guards | nummod |
| 44 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 guards | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 body | punct |
| 46 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 started | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 gold | case |
| 48 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 guards | nmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 uniforms | cc |
| 50 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 uniforms | compound |
| 51 | uniforms | uniform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 guards | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 see | punct |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 see | mark |
| 54 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 arrive | conj |
| 55 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 58 happened | nsubj |
| 56 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 happened | aux |
| 57 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 happened | aux |
| 58 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 54 see | ccomp |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | should | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | King's son | uneasy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not receive | gerund | King's son not said here | any news | son's Ambassador | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent news=Theme from ambassador=Source | |||
| 4 | start | past · perfect | son | with a magnificent escort of thousand horsemen; thirty body guards in gold and scarlet uniforms obl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality with escort=Subeventuality | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | happen | could · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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