The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 71

As he drew near the place he saw that the whole mountain had been dug away, and that the king was lying dead on the ground, his spade and bucket beside him.

Who acts: prince, king · What happens: draw, see, dig away, lie · To what, where: place, whole mountain, spade, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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, king), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	acl:relcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 dug	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountain	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mountain	amod
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dug	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dug	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 dug	aux:pass
15	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saw	ccomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 dug	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lying	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lying	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 lying	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lying	aux
23	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 drew	advcl
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lying	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spade	punct
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 spade	nmod:poss
30	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bucket	cc
32	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spade	conj
33	beside	beside	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 spade	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	prince		the place		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	prince	the place not said here			tree rules
3	dig away	past · perfect · passive		the whole mountain		away property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	lie	past · progressive	the king	prince's spade beside prince and bucket	the ground	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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