The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 85
And there beside him stood the old, white-bearded, figure of Death.
Who acts: prince · What happens: stand, figure · To what, where: old bearded figure, Death
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | expl |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 stood | mark |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 figure | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 figure | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bearded | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 white | punct |
| 11 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 figure | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bearded | punct |
| 13 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Death | case |
| 15 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 figure | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | prince | the old bearded figure of Death | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | figure | Death | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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