The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 37
When Arthur reached the castle, the youths were shooting in the same place, and the same yellow man was standing by, and as soon as he beheld Arthur he greeted him and invited him in, and they entered together.
Who acts: Arthur, youths, same yellow man, man · What happens: reach, shoot, stand by, behold, greet, invite · To what, where: castle, same place, Arthur, Kynon, man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arthur, youths, same yellow man, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beheld | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shooting | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youths | det |
| 8 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shooting | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shooting | aux |
| 10 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 reached | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shooting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 standing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 standing | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 standing | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 standing | aux |
| 22 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 reached | advcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 standing | fixed |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beheld | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 beheld | cc |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 soon | advmod |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 beheld | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 beheld | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beheld | nsubj |
| 30 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 beheld | obj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 greeted | nsubj |
| 33 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beheld | parataxis |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 greeted | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 invited | cc |
| 36 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 greeted | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 invited | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 36 invited | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 entered | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 entered | cc |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 entered | nsubj |
| 42 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beheld | conj |
| 43 | together | together | ADV | _ | 42 entered | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Arthur | the castle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past · progressive | the youths | the same place | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stand by | past · progressive | the same yellow man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | behold | past | man | Arthur | soon property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arthur=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | greet speech: greet | past | man | Kynon | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | invite | past | man not said here | man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | enter | past | youths = youth | together property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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