The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 29
He dismounted at the foot of the steps and walked up, a great parasol being held over his head by a slave.
Who acts: king, slave · What happens: dismount, walk up, hold · To what, where: foot, great parasol, head
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, slave), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dismounted | nsubj |
| 2 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 foot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foot | det |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dismounted | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 foot | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismounted | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 walked | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 parasol | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 parasol | amod |
| 15 | parasol | parasol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 held | aux:pass |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dismounted | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 slave | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 slave | det |
| 23 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | king | the foot of the steps | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk up | past | king not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund · passive | a slave | a great parasol | king's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme over head=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/29/