--- title: Further along the road which led to his old home the prince found th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Further along the road which led to his old home the prince found the great tree torn up by its roots, and the king of the eagles sitting dead on the ground, with his wings outspread as if for flight. Who acts: prince, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:19:76 # text = Further along the road which led to his old home the prince found the great tree torn up by its roots, and the king of the eagles sitting dead on the ground, with his wings outspread as if for flight. 1 Further further ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 along along ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 eagles eagle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 30 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 38 outspread outspread ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | | | | | | to king's old home; further *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to home=Patient | | 2 | **find** | past | the prince | the great tree | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | | 3 | **tear up** | participle | | the great tree *not said here* | | | | by tree's roots | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by root=Trajectory | | 4 | **sit** | gerund | the king of the eagles | | | the ground | | with king's wings; dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/19/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/19/77/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/19/)