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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 103

When he was better he made his way home again, and into his father’s palace, where he found a strange man standing behind the throne with the peacock’s feathers.

Who acts: prince, better, strange man · What happens: be, make, find, stand · To what, where: way, palace, strange man, throne

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, better, strange man), 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

advmodnsubjcopnsubjnsubjnmod:possobjadvmodadvmodpunctcccasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjaclcasedetoblcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootWhenADVhePRONwasAUXbetterADJhePRONmadeVERBhisPRONwayNOUNhomeADVagainADV,PUNCTandCCONJintoADPhisPRONfatherNOUN’sPARTpalaceNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVhePRONfoundVERBaDETstrangeADJmanNOUNstandingVERBbehindADPtheDETthroneNOUNwithADPtheDETpeacockNOUN’sPARTfeathersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 betteradvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 betternsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 bettercop
4bettergoodADJDegree=Cmp6 madensubj
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 madensubj
6mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 waynmod:poss
8waywayNOUNNumber=Sing6 madeobj
9homehomeADV_8 wayadvmod
10againagainADV_6 madeadvmod
11,,PUNCT_17 palacepunct
12andandCCONJ_17 palacecc
13intointoADP_17 palacecase
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 fathernmod:poss
15fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing17 palacenmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 fathercase
17palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing6 madeobl
18,,PUNCT_21 foundpunct
19wherewhereADVPronType=Rel21 foundadvmod
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 foundnsubj
21foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 palaceacl:relcl
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 mandet
23strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos24 manamod
24manmanNOUNNumber=Sing21 foundobj
25standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger24 manacl
26behindbehindADP_28 thronecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 thronedet
28thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing25 standingobl
29withwithADP_33 featherscase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 peacockdet
31peacockpeacockNOUNNumber=Sing33 feathersnmod:poss
32’s'sPART_31 peacockcase
33feathersfeatherNOUNNumber=Plur25 standingobl
34..PUNCT_6 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastprincegood propertytree rules
2makepastbetterprince's wayprince's father's palaceagainvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into palace=Product
3findpastprincea strange manvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4standgerunda strange man not said herethe thronewith the peacock's feathersvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind throne=Location

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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