The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 93
When they arrived at the town where the king dwelt they entered the small house over against the castle.
Who acts: thanks, king · What happens: arrive, dwell, enter · To what, where: town, small house
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 entered | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 dwelt | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelt | nsubj |
| 10 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 town | acl:relcl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 entered | advmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | thanks | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | the king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | thanks | the small house | against the castle; over property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=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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