The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 72
When he entered the hall where Kieva was sitting, he lighted a fire, and hung the glove up on a peg.
Who acts: castle, Kieva · What happens: enter, sit, light, hang up · To what, where: hall, fire, glove, peg
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 (castle, Kieva), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lighted | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hall | det |
| 5 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 7 | Kieva | Kieva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hall | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lighted | nsubj |
| 12 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lighted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hung | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hung | cc |
| 17 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lighted | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 glove | det |
| 19 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hung | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 hung | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 peg | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 peg | det |
| 23 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hung | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | castle | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | Kieva | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | light | past | castle | a fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 4 | hang up | past | castle not said here | the glove | a peg | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent glove=Theme on peg=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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