More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 6
But as they came in front of the throne, Tattercoats' lover rose from beside the King, and came to meet her.
Who acts: lords, lover · What happens: come, rise, meet · To what, where: front, lover
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, lover), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 rose | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rose | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 11 | Tattercoats | tattercoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lover | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 Tattercoats | case |
| 13 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rose | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 came | xcomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lords = lord | front of the throne | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Tattercoats's lover | from the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Tattercoats's lover not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Tattercoats's lover not said here | lover | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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