The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 57

He soon arrived in the town where the mist-veiled queen reigned in her palace, but the whole city had changed, and he could scarcely find his way through the streets.

Who acts: prince, whole city · What happens: arrive, veil, reign, change, find · To what, where: town, veiled queen, palace, way, streets

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 (prince, whole 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 arrived	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 arrived	advmod
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 queen	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queen	det
9	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 veiled	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 mist	punct
11	veiled	veil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 queen	amod
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 town	appos
13	reigned	reign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 queen	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 palace	nmod:poss
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reigned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 changed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 changed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 city	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 city	amod
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 changed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 changed	aux
23	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 arrived	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 find	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 find	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 find	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 find	aux
28	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	29 find	advmod
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 arrived	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 find	obj
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 streets	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 streets	det
34	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 find	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	prince		the town	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	veil	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	reign	participle		the veiled queen not said here	queen's palace		tree rules
4	change	past · perfect	the whole city				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	could	prince	prince's way	the streets	scarcely property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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