The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 48
There, in the centre of the courtyard, she beheld Pryderi standing, and hastened towards him.
Who acts: centre · What happens: behold, hasten · To what, where: Pryderi standing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (centre), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 , | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 centre | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 centre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 centre | det |
| 5 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beheld | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 courtyard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtyard | det |
| 8 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 centre | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 centre | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beheld | nsubj |
| 11 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Pryderi | pryderi | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 standing | amod |
| 13 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beheld | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hastened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hastened | cc |
| 16 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 beheld | conj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hastened | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | the centre of the courtyard | Pryderi standing | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer standing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the centre of the courtyard not said here | towards friend | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
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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