The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 35

Long after them came Esben riding on his stick, and he also wanted to get a place in the palace, but no one had any use for him, and he was told that he could just go back the way he had come.

Who acts: brothers, king, one · What happens: come, ride, want, get, have, tell · To what, where: stick, place, palace, use, king, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, king, one), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
6	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stick	nmod:poss
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 riding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
13	also	also	ADV	_	14 wanted	advmod
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 palace	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palace	det
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 use	det
28	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 use	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 told	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	aux:pass
35	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 had	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 go	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 go	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
39	just	just	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 told	ccomp
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 go	obl:unmarked
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 come	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 come	aux
46	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 way	acl:relcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	brothers = brother			long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ride	gerund	brothers = brother not said here		king's stick		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	king				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	a place	the palace		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
5	have	past	no one	any use		for king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient
6	tell speech: assert	past · passive		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
7	go back	could	king	the way			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
8	come	past · perfect	king	the way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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 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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