The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 22

Not long after he had gone there arrived at the river a slave who had been sent by the king to learn the fate of his beloved daughter.

Who acts: father, slave, king · What happens: go, arrive, send, learn, fate · To what, where: river, slave, fate, beloved daughter

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, slave, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:2336): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 arrived	advmod
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 long	advcl
7	there	there	PRON	_	8 arrived	expl
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 slave	det
13	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sent	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sent	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 sent	aux:pass
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 slave	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obl:agent
21	to	to	PART	_	22 learn	mark
22	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sent	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fate	det
24	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 learn	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 daughter	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
27	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 daughter	amod
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fate	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	father				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past	a slave		the river; there	long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send	past · perfect · passive	the king	a slave			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	learn	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the fate of father's beloved daughter			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic
5	fate			father's beloved daughter			nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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