The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 102
As he spoke the young man laid the jewels at the feet of the king, and the nobles and the judges pressed round to examine them.
Who acts: Man · What happens: speak, lay, press, examine · To what, where: young man, jewels, feet, nobles · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jewels | det |
| 9 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laid | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feet | det |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laid | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feet | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nobles | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nobles | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nobles | det |
| 19 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laid | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 judges | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 judges | det |
| 22 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nobles | conj |
| 23 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 nobles | acl |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 23 pressed | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 examine | mark |
| 26 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pressed | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 examine | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Man | the young man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the jewels | the feet of the king | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme at foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | press | participle | the nobles and the judges not said here | round property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | examine | to-infinitive | jewels = jewel | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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