The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 78
At the foot of the pillar stood six men round a tall and stately person.
What happens: stand · To what, where: six men, foot
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 foot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foot | det |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pillar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pillar | det |
| 6 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foot | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 men | nummod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 person | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stately | cc |
| 14 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tall | conj |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | six men | the foot of the pillar | round a tall person | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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