The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 128
At length he reached the castle gates, and was at once admitted, as he was in the uniform of the king’s bodyguard.
Who acts: Nur · What happens: reach, admit, be · To what, where: castle gates, length, uniform
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gates | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gates | compound |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 admitted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 admitted | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 admitted | aux:pass |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 admitted | obl |
| 13 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reached | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 uniform | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 uniform | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 uniform | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 uniform | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 uniform | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 uniform | det |
| 20 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 admitted | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bodyguard | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bodyguard | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 king | case |
| 25 | bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 uniform | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Nur | the castle gates | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent gate=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past · passive | Nur not said here | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: at once=Location | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Nur | the uniform | of the king's bodyguard | tree rules |
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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