The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 10

The man led him through several streets into a large square, one side of which was occupied by a splendid building that seemed borne up on slender pillars of soft green marble.

Who acts: man, splendid building · What happens: lead, occupy, seem, bear up · To what, where: city, several streets, splendid building, slender pillars

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, splendid building), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	obj
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 streets	case
6	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 streets	amod
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 led	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 square	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 square	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 square	amod
11	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 side	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 side	nummod
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 square	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 occupied	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 occupied	aux:pass
18	occupied	occupy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 side	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 building	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 building	det
21	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 building	amod
22	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 occupied	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 building	acl:relcl
25	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 building	acl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 borne	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 pillars	case
28	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pillars	amod
29	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 borne	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 marble	case
31	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 marble	amod
32	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 marble	amod
33	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pillars	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the man	city	several streets	into a large square and one side	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through street=Destination
2	occupy	past · passive				of one side; by a splendid building	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	seem	past	a splendid building				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	bear up	participle		a splendid building not said here	slender pillars of soft green marble		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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 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.

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