The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 64
He was in a beautiful valley, full of meadows and streams, with a splendid castle standing by.
Who acts: fellow, splendid castle · What happens: be, stand by · To what, where: beautiful valley
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, splendid castle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 valley | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 valley | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 valley | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 valley | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 valley | amod |
| 6 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 valley | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 meadows | case |
| 10 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 streams | cc |
| 12 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 meadows | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 castle | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | amod |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meadows | conj |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 castle | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 standing | fixed |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 valley | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fellow | a beautiful valley | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand by | gerund | a splendid castle not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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