The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 8
So he mounted the stone steps that led to the battlements of the city, and stopped for a moment to gaze about him.
Who acts: sun, stone steps · What happens: mount, lead, stop, gaze · To what, where: stone steps
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, stone steps), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steps | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 steps | compound |
| 6 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mounted | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 steps | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 battlements | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 battlements | det |
| 11 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 led | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 battlements | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stopped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stopped | cc |
| 17 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 moment | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moment | det |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stopped | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 gaze | mark |
| 22 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stopped | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gaze | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | sun | the stone steps | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the stone steps | to the battlements of the city | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to battlement=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | sun not said here | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | gaze | to-infinitive | sun not said here | about sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=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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