The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 11
I walked along that path all the day, and in the evening I came to a castle in front of which stood two youths clothed in yellow, each grasping an ivory bow, with arrows made of the bones of the whale, and winged with peacock’s feathers.
Who acts: I, front, each · What happens: walk, come, stand, clothe, grasp, make · To what, where: path, castle, two youths, ivory bow, arrows
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, front, each), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 path | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 path | det |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 castle | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 front | acl:relcl |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 youths | nummod |
| 25 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stood | obj |
| 26 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 youths | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 yellow | case |
| 28 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 clothed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grasping | punct |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 grasping | nsubj |
| 31 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bow | det |
| 33 | ivory | ivory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bow | amod |
| 34 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grasping | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 arrows | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 arrows | case |
| 37 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 grasping | obl |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 arrows | acl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 bones | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bones | det |
| 41 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 made | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 whale | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 whale | det |
| 44 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bones | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 winged | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 winged | cc |
| 47 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 walked | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 feathers | case |
| 49 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 50 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 49 peacock | case |
| 51 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 winged | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | I | that path | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | I | a castle in front | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | stand | past | front | two youths | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | clothe | participle | two youths not said here | in yellow | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in yellow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grasp | gerund | each | a ivory bow | with arrows | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bow=Experiencer with arrow=Instrument | |||
| 6 | make | participle | arrows not said here | of the bones of the whale | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 7 | wing | participle | I not said here | with peacock's feathers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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