The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 81
At last he reached the capital of his father’s kingdom, but on reaching the place where the royal palace had stood, instead of the marble galleries where he used to play, there lay a great sulphur lake, its blue flames darting into the air.
Who acts: prince, royal palace, blue flames, lake · What happens: reach, stand, use, play, lie, dart · To what, where: capital, last, place, great sulphur lake, air
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, royal palace, blue flames, lake), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 capital | det |
| 6 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 capital | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lay | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 lay | cc |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 reaching | mark |
| 15 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 lay | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reaching | obj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 stood | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 20 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 palace | amod |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stood | aux |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 place | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 galleries | punct |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 29 galleries | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 galleries | det |
| 28 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 galleries | compound |
| 29 | galleries | gallery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stood | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 used | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 used | nsubj |
| 32 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 galleries | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 play | mark |
| 34 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 used | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reaching | punct |
| 36 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 37 lay | expl |
| 37 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 lake | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 lake | amod |
| 40 | sulphur | sulphur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lake | compound |
| 41 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lay | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 flames | punct |
| 43 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 flames | nmod:poss |
| 44 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 flames | amod |
| 45 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 lake | nmod |
| 46 | darting | dart | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 flames | acl |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 air | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 air | det |
| 49 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 darting | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | prince | the capital of prince's father's kingdom | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent capital=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | reach | gerund | the place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · perfect | the royal palace | instead the marble galleries | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | use | past | prince | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | play | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | lie | past | prince not said here | a great sulphur lake lake's blue flames | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lake=Theme | |||
| 7 | dart | gerund | lake's blue flames not said here | the air | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | ||||
| 8 | flame | lake | nom flame «process intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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