The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 19
At that instant the Sultan entered, followed by the Sultana and the chamberlain, and he went up to the bed and found the corpses stiff and motionless.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: enter, follow, go up, find · To what, where: instant, corpses
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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 | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 entered | parataxis |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Sultana | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultana | det |
| 11 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl:agent |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chamberlain | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chamberlain | det |
| 14 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sultana | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 went | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bed | det |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 corpses | det |
| 26 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 found | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 motionless | cc |
| 29 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stiff | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the Sultan | that instant | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go up | past | Sultan | to the bed | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Sultan not said here | the corpses | stiff property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Topic |
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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