The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 74
With a proud air he walked up to the throne, and kneeling down, asked:
Who acts: Labakan · What happens: walk up, kneel down, ask · To what, where: throne
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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 air | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 air | det |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 walked | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 throne | det |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kneeling | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kneeling | cc |
| 13 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 walked | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 kneeling | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | past | Labakan | the throne | with a proud air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to throne=Destination | |||
| 2 | kneel down | gerund | Labakan not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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