The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 27
The third day Arthur’s men returned to the palace into the presence of Yspaddaden.
Who acts: men · What happens: return · To what, where: presence
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Arthur | case |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 presence | det |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Yspaddaden | case |
| 15 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 presence | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Arthur's men | the presence of Yspaddaden | day | to the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location into presence=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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