The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 12
He carried his burden to the ship and stowed his treasures away, and the youth followed, leading the king’s daughter.
Who acts: man, youth · What happens: carry, stow away, follow, lead, burden, treasure · To what, where: burden, ship, treasures, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, youth), 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 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 burden | nmod:poss |
| 4 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stowed | cc |
| 9 | stowed | stow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stowed | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 stowed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 followed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 youth | det |
| 16 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leading | punct |
| 19 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 followed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leading | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | man | man's burden | the ship | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme to ship=Destination | |||
| 2 | stow away | past | man not said here | man's treasures | away property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | past | the youth | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | the youth not said here | the king's daughter | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burden | man | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | treasure | man | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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