The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 45

With these words the old man disappeared into the tree, and the Prince returned home rather startled, and told his father all that he had seen and heard.

Who acts: old man, Prince, home, man · What happens: disappear, return, startle, tell, see, hear · To what, where: tree, home, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Prince, home, man), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 disappeared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disappeared	nsubj
7	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disappeared	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 returned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 returned	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 returned	nsubj
15	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disappeared	conj
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 returned	obj
17	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 startled	advmod
18	startled	startle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 home	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disappeared	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	iobj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 seen	det:predet
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 seen	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 told	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 seen	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	the old man			the tree	with this words	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	past	the Prince	home				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
3	startle	past	home not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	past	the old man not said here		Prince's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
5	see	past · perfect	man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	participle	man not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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