The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 18
But long before this changes had taken place in the court of Kilweh’s father.
What happens: take · To what, where: place, court
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 taken | cc |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 taken | advmod |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 changes | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 changes | det |
| 5 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 13 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Kilweh | case |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 court | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | place | the court of Kilweh's father | before this changes | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme before change=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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