The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 3
As they drew near the gates, Rosald took the head from the wallet and handed it to Geirald, whom he followed into the king’s presence.
Who acts: they, Rosald · What happens: draw, take, hand, follow · To what, where: gates, head, wallet, Geirald, presence
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, Rosald), 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 drew | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 gates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gates | det |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 8 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 wallet | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wallet | det |
| 14 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 handed | cc |
| 16 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 handed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Geirald | case |
| 19 | Geirald | Geirald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 handed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 followed | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 followed | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 followed | nsubj |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Geirald | acl:relcl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 presence | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 presence | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 followed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | they | the gates | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Rosald | the head | the wallet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme from wallet=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | hand | past | Rosald not said here | head | Geirald | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to geirald=Destination | |||
| 4 | follow | past | Rosald | Geirald | the king's presence | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme into presence=Trajectory |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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