The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 16
As he crossed the threshold fifteen armed Turks barred his way, with the Sultan at their head.
Who acts: youth, armed Turks · What happens: cross, bar · To what, where: threshold, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, armed Turks), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 crossed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 barred | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 threshold | det |
| 5 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 threshold | flat |
| 7 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Turks | amod |
| 8 | Turks | turk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 barred | nsubj |
| 9 | barred | bar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 barred | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sultan | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Sultan | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 barred | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sultan | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 barred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | youth | the threshold | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bar | past | armed Turks | youth's way | with the Sultan at Turks's head | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer way=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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