The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 3
At last the ceremony was over, and the king, signing to his newly found son to follow him, rose and went into another room.
Who acts: ceremony, son · What happens: be, sign, find, follow, rise, go · To what, where: son, king, room
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceremony, son), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ceremony | det |
| 4 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 over | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 last | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 king | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 signing | punct |
| 12 | signing | sign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 king | conj |
| 13 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 16 found | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 found | nmod:poss |
| 15 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 16 found | advmod |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 signing | advcl |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 follow | mark |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 follow | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rose | punct |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rose | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 room | det |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ceremony | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sign | gerund | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | son | newly property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent son=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | son not said here | king | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rise | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | go | past | another room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location |
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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