The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 55
They went together into the Castle of Clashing Swords and found it adorned and fitted in princely fashion.
Who acts: lion, Castle · What happens: go together, clash, find, adorn, fit · To what, where: Castle, Swords, princely fashion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lion, Castle), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 Castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Castle | det |
| 6 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 Clashing | mark |
| 8 | Clashing | clash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Castle | acl |
| 9 | Swords | Sword | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Clashing | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 found | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fitted | cc |
| 15 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 adorned | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fashion | case |
| 17 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fashion | amod |
| 18 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fitted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | lion | the Castle | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | clash | gerund | the Castle not said here | Swords | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | lion not said here | castle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | adorn | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | fit | participle | princely fashion | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in fashion=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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