The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 101
When they came into the palace yard, the king himself opened the carriage door, for respect to his new son-in-law.
Who acts: horses, king · What happens: come, open · To what, where: carriage door
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 yard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 yard | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yard | compound |
| 7 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 door | compound |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 respect | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 respect | case |
| 18 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 son | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 son | amod |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 respect | nmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 law | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 law | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 in | punct |
| 26 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | horses = horse | into the palace yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the king | the carriage door | for respect to king's new son in law | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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