The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 49
Labakan came first and spread out his kaftan before the eyes of the astonished king.
Who acts: Labakan · What happens: come, spread out · To what, where: kaftan, eyes
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 (Labakan), 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 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spread | cc |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 spread | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kaftan | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kaftan | kaftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spread | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 14 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Labakan | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread out | past | Labakan not said here | Labakan's kaftan | the eyes of the astonished king | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kaftan=Theme before eye=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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