The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 47
On hearing this the king walked to the window and stood for a few minutes with his back to the room, where the company of young men remained silent.
Who acts: king, company · What happens: hear, walk, stand, remain · To what, where: this
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 (king, company), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 walked | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minutes | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 minutes | amod |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 remained | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 remained | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 company | det |
| 25 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 remained | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 men | amod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 company | nmod |
| 29 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 room | acl:relcl |
| 30 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 remained | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the king not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | the king | to the window result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the king not said here | minute | with king's back; to the room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | remain | past | the company of young men | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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