The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 121
Then the king led the way to the courtyard just behind the palace, and through the gate into a beautiful garden where stood two splendid tombs in a green space under the trees.
Who acts: king · What happens: lead, stand · To what, where: way, gate, two splendid tombs, green space
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 courtyard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courtyard | det |
| 9 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 palace | advmod |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 courtyard | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gate | cc |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 gate | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gate | det |
| 18 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 garden | amod |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 stood | advmod |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 garden | acl |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 tombs | nummod |
| 26 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tombs | amod |
| 27 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stood | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 space | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 space | det |
| 30 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 space | amod |
| 31 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 trees | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trees | det |
| 34 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 space | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the king | the way | the gate | then | to the courtyard behind the palace; into a beautiful garden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to courtyard=Destination | |
| 2 | stand | participle | two splendid tombs | a green space under the trees | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tomb=Theme in space=Destination |
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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