The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 58
In the palace itself all was still, and he wandered through the rooms without meeting anyone to stop him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, wander, meet, stop · To what, where: palace, rooms, anyone, prince
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 palace | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 still | obl |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 palace | nmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 itself | det |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 still | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 wandered | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wandered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wandered | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wandered | nsubj |
| 11 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 rooms | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rooms | det |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wandered | obl |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 meeting | mark |
| 16 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wandered | advcl |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 meeting | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stop | mark |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 meeting | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stop | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the palace street | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | prince | the rooms | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | meet | gerund | prince not said here | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
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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