The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 105
Up they went to the castle, and when the young men saw the girl standing there, they led her into the hall where the banquet was laid out and poured her out some wine.
Who acts: servants, young men, girl · What happens: go, see, stand, lead, lay out, pour out · To what, where: castle, girl, banquet, hall
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, young men, girl), 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 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 girl | acl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 standing | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 hall | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hall | det |
| 24 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 laid | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 banquet | det |
| 27 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 laid | aux:pass |
| 29 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 led | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 laid | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 poured | cc |
| 32 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 poured | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 poured | compound:prt |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 wine | det |
| 36 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 poured | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | servants = servant | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the young men | the girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the girl not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | servants = servant | girl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lay out | past · passive | the banquet | the hall | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 6 | pour out | past | servants = servant not said here | girl | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Theme wine=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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