The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 39
At sunrise Arthur departed thence, with Kynon for his guide, and reached the black man first, and afterwards the top of the wooded hill, with the fountain and the bowl and the tree.
Who acts: Arthur · What happens: depart, reach, wood · To what, where: black 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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sunrise | case |
| 2 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | obl |
| 3 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | nsubj |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 4 departed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kynon | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Kynon | case |
| 8 | Kynon | Kynon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 guide | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 guide | nmod:poss |
| 11 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Kynon | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 departed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 reached | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 top | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 top | cc |
| 21 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 23 top | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 top | det |
| 23 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hill | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hill | det |
| 26 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 hill | amod |
| 27 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 top | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fountain | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 fountain | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fountain | det |
| 31 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bowl | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bowl | det |
| 34 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fountain | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 tree | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bowl | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | Arthur | sunrise | with Kynon for Kynon's guide; thence property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Arthur not said here | the black man | with the fountain and the bowl and the tree; the top of the wooded hill obl; first property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | wood | participle | tree rules |
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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