The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 5

Then he rode off, and when he reached his father he found him mortally ill and very near death.

Who acts: King · What happens: ride off, reach, find · To what, where: father

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 rode	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	mortally	mortally	ADV	_	16 ill	advmod
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 found	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 death	cc
18	very	very	ADV	_	20 death	advmod
19	near	near	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ill	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ride off	past	King		then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	King	King's father			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent father=Theme
3	find	past	King	father		ill property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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