The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 16
At length they reached a palace, and there was the king standing on the steps.
Who acts: soldiers, king · What happens: reach, be, stand · To what, where: palace, length
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 king | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 steps | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 steps | det |
| 16 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 standing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | soldiers = soldier | a palace | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent palace=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | be | past | the king | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the king not said here | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=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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