The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 43
Suddenly from behind the distant veil of the desert appeared an army of lions led by their king.
Who acts: distant veil · What happens: appear, lead · To what, where: army, lions
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (distant veil), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 veil | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 veil | case |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 veil | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 veil | det |
| 5 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 veil | amod |
| 6 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 desert | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 desert | det |
| 9 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 veil | nmod |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 army | det |
| 12 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lions | case |
| 14 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 army | nmod |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lions | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 king | nmod:poss |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the distant veil of the desert | a army of lions | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location army=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | participle | lions not said here | by lion's king | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by king=Destination |
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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