The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 70
It halted at the bottom of the hill, and some splendid tents were pitched.
Who acts: procession · What happens: halt, pitch · To what, where: bottom, splendid tents
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 (procession), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 halted | nsubj |
| 2 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 bottom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bottom | det |
| 5 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 halted | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bottom | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pitched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pitched | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 tents | det |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tents | amod |
| 13 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pitched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pitched | aux:pass |
| 15 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 halted | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | past | procession | the bottom of the hill | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pitch | past · passive | some splendid tents | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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