The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 91
And when the sultan woke he saw, in the distance, a palace built of soft blue marble, resting on slender pillars of pure gold.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: wake, see, build, rest · To what, where: palace, slender pillars
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 woke | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sultan | det |
| 4 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 distance | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 palace | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distance | conj |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 palace | acl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 marble | case |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 marble | amod |
| 18 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 marble | amod |
| 19 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 built | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 resting | punct |
| 21 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 pillars | case |
| 23 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pillars | amod |
| 24 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 resting | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 26 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gold | amod |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pillars | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the sultan | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | past | sultan | in the distance and a palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | a palace not said here | of soft blue marble | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | rest | gerund | sultan not said here | slender pillars of pure gold | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pillar=Location |
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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