The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 67
The whole castle was soon aroused, and then everybody wondered at the affair: it was soon seen that the bodies were those of the king’s great enemies, but how they came to be there and in that condition was a perfect mystery.
Who acts: everybody, bodies, giants · What happens: arouse, wonder, see, be, come · To what, where: whole castle, affair, those, perfect mystery, condition
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 (everybody, bodies, giants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 castle | amod |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aroused | aux:pass |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 aroused | advmod |
| 6 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wondered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wondered | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 wondered | advmod |
| 10 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 wondered | nsubj |
| 11 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aroused | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 affair | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 affair | det |
| 14 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wondered | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 seen | advmod |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 aroused | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 those | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bodies | det |
| 22 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 those | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 those | cop |
| 24 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 seen | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 enemies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 king | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 enemies | amod |
| 30 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 those | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 came | cc |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 came | advmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 there | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 there | cop |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 came | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 mystery | cc |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 condition | case |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 condition | det |
| 42 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 mystery | obl |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 mystery | cop |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 mystery | det |
| 45 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 mystery | amod |
| 46 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 there | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past · passive | the whole castle | soon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | everybody | the affair | then | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | see | past · passive | affair | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the bodies | those | of the king's great enemies | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come | past | giants = giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | a perfect mystery | that condition | tree rules |
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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