The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 21
He sprang up and caught all three in his arms, and afterwards took them, along with the man and his horse and his hound, back to the palace with great joy.
Who acts: king · What happens: spring up, catch, take · To what, where: three, arms, queen
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sprang | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 caught | cc |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 three | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 caught | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 three | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 man | punct |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 horse | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hound | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hound | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 palace | punct |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 palace | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 joy | case |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 joy | amod |
| 34 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 palace | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | king not said here | all three | king's arms | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | king not said here | queen | along the man and king's horse and king's hound and the palace with great joy; afterwards property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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