The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 39
He collected all his savings, and, concealed by the darkness of the night, he passed through the gates of Alexandria.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: collect, conceal, pass, save · To what, where: savings, gates
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | 2 collected | nsubj |
| 2 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 savings | det:predet |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 savings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 collected | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 concealed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 concealed | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 concealed | punct |
| 9 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 collected | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 darkness | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 darkness | det |
| 12 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concealed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 darkness | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 collected | parataxis |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 gates | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gates | det |
| 21 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 passed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Alexandria | case |
| 23 | Alexandria | Alexandria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gates | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | Prince | Prince's savings | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Theme | ||||
| 2 | conceal | participle | Prince not said here | by the darkness of the night | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by darkness=Location | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | Prince | the gates of Alexandria | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=Location | ||||
| 4 | save | Prince | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=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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