The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 38

Niels made his way down into the courtyard, but on his way to the outer gate he found himself at the entrance to the large hall of the castle.

Who acts: Niels · What happens: make down, find · To what, where: way, courtyard, Niels

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels), 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	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 made	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 courtyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 courtyard	det
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
16	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gate	amod
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 found	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 entrance	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 entrance	det
23	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 hall	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hall	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hall	amod
27	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 entrance	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 castle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hall	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make down	past	Niels	Niels's way		the courtyard		down property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into courtyard=Product
2	find	past	Niels	Niels		Niels's way to the outer gate		at the entrance to the large hall of the castle	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at entrance=Asset

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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