The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 32
He was about to enter the golden gates, when there sprang at him a wondrous beast, whose like he had never seen.
Who acts: city · What happens: be, enter, spring, not see · To what, where: golden gates, wondrous beast
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 (city), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 enter | mark |
| 5 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gates | amod |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enter | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 sprang | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 sprang | expl |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sprang | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 beast | det |
| 16 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beast | amod |
| 17 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprang | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 seen | nmod:poss |
| 20 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 seen | advmod |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 beast | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | city | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | to-infinitive | city not said here | the golden gates | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | city not said here | a wondrous beast | there | at city | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beast=Theme | ||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect | city | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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