The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 65

Then Arthur’s men set forth, and Kilweh with them, and journeyed till they reached the largest castle in the world, and a black man came out to meet them.

Who acts: men, black man · What happens: set, journey, reach, come out, meet · To what, where: Kilweh, largest castle, world, men

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, black man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 set	advmod
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 men	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Arthur	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Kilweh	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Kilweh	cc
9	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Kilweh	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 journeyed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 journeyed	cc
14	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	parataxis
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 reached	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 journeyed	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 castle	det
19	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 castle	amod
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 castle	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 journeyed	conj
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 meet	mark
32	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 came	advcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 meet	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	participle	Arthur's men	Kilweh with scissors		then	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	journey	past						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	past	men = man	the largest castle	the world			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
4	come out	past	a black man				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	meet	to-infinitive	a black man not said here	men = man				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

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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