More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 75
But in the third court, all on milk-white steeds, she saw the Queen of Elfland, and by her side a knight with a star in his crown, with right hand gloved and the left bare.
Who acts: court, knight · What happens: see, glove, crown · To what, where: Queen, third court, right hand
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, knight), 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 | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 court | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 court | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 court | amod |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 all | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 court | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 steeds | case |
| 9 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 white | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 milk | punct |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steeds | amod |
| 12 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 all | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 court | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Elfland | case |
| 19 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Queen | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 side | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 side | cc |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 knight | det |
| 26 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 side | appos |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 star | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 star | det |
| 29 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 knight | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 crown | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 crown | nmod:poss |
| 32 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 star | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hand | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 35 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hand | amod |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 star | conj |
| 37 | gloved | glove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 hand | acl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 bare | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bare | det |
| 40 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bare | amod |
| 41 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 gloved | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | court | the Queen of Elfland | the third court | by court's side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | glove | participle | right hand not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | crown | knight | nom crown «communication 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: «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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