The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 52

At last he lifted his eyes, and there he was outside of a smith’s gate that he often passed before, about a mile away from the palace of his betrothed princess.

Who acts: prince · What happens: lift, be, pass, betroth · To what, where: eyes, last

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 (prince), 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 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lifted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gate	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 outside	expl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 outside	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 outside	cop
12	outside	outside	ADV	_	17 gate	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 gate	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 smith	det
15	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gate	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 smith	case
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
20	often	often	ADV	_	21 passed	advmod
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gate	advcl
22	before	before	ADV	_	21 passed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mile	punct
24	about	about	ADV	_	26 mile	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mile	det
26	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lifted	parataxis
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 mile	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 palace	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 palace	det
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 away	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 princess	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 princess	nmod:poss
33	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 princess	amod
34	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 palace	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	prince	prince's eyes	last		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at last=Destination
2	is	past	prince		there	outside property	tree rules
3	pass	past	prince			before, often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	betroth	participle					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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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