The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 83
“Outside the city walls,” went on the emperor, “you will find a large lake, and by its banks lie the richest meadows in my kingdom.
Who acts: you, banks · What happens: go, find, lie · To what, where: city walls, large lake, richest meadows, kingdom
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 (you, banks), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 2 | Outside | outside | ADP | _ | 5 walls | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 walls | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walls | compound |
| 5 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 walls | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 walls | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 emperor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emperor | det |
| 11 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lake | amod |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lie | cc |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 banks | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 banks | nmod:poss |
| 24 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lie | nsubj |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 meadows | det |
| 27 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 meadows | amod |
| 28 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lie | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 kingdom | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 31 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lie | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the city walls | on the emperor | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | future | you | a large lake | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | present | wall's banks | the richest meadows | my kingdom | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meadow=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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