The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 88
By this time they had reached the palace, and the king came to the door to receive Count Piro, and led him to the great hall, where a feast was spread.
Who acts: Majesty, king · What happens: reach, come, receive, count, lead, spread · To what, where: palace, door, Piro, king, great hall, feast
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | aux |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 receive | mark |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | advcl |
| 19 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 receive | xcomp |
| 20 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Count | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 led | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 led | cc |
| 23 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 led | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 hall | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hall | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hall | amod |
| 28 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 led | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 spread | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 spread | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 feast | det |
| 32 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 spread | aux:pass |
| 34 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hall | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | Majesty | the palace | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the king | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | count | infinitive | the king not said here | Piro | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piro=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | the king not said here | king | the great hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hall=Destination | |||
| 6 | spread | past · passive | a feast | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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