The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 143
Then they hastened home to the King with his three treasures, where they arrived late on Christmas night, and Ring handed them over to him.
Who acts: others, Ring, iron · What happens: hasten, arrive, hand over, treasure · To what, where: others, iron
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Ring, iron), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 treasures | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 treasures | nummod |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hastened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arrived | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 arrived | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 16 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 arrived | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 night | compound |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 handed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 handed | cc |
| 22 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 handed | nsubj |
| 23 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 handed | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 handed | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 handed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | others = other | then | to the King result; with iron's three treasures; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to king=Result | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | others = other | night | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | hand over | past | Ring | others = other | iron | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 4 | treasure | iron | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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