The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 1
At the first dawn the proud lady was in the chamber, and led her away, and the footman of the horns put out his tongue at her as she was quitting the palace.
Who acts: proud lady, chamber, footman, she · What happens: be, lead away, put out, quit · To what, where: chamber, her, tongue, palace
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proud lady, chamber, footman, she), 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 | _ | 4 dawn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dawn | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 dawn | amod |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chamber | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chamber | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chamber | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chamber | det |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 led | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 led | cc |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 led | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 footman | det |
| 20 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 horns | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horns | det |
| 23 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 footman | nmod |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chamber | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 put | compound:prt |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 27 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 quitting | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 quitting | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 quitting | aux |
| 33 | quitting | quit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 put | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 palace | det |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 quitting | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 chamber | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the proud lady | the chamber | dawn | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead away | past | the chamber not said here | her = she | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | put out | past | the footman of the horns | footman's tongue | at her = she | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at she=Destination | |||
| 4 | quit | past · progressive | she | the palace | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Source |
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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