The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 4
The queen awaited them in the great hall of the palace, surrounded by her entire court.
Who acts: queen · What happens: await, surround · To what, where: town, great hall, palace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awaited | nsubj |
| 3 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awaited | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hall | amod |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awaited | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hall | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surrounded | punct |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 palace | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 court | nmod:poss |
| 16 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 court | amod |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awaited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | past | the queen | town | the great hall of the palace | tree rules | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | the palace not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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