The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 12
‘Side by side they went down the road which led to the lion’s house.
Who acts: Beasts, road · What happens: go down, lead · To what, where: Side
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beasts, road), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 2 | Side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Side | nmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 road | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lion | det |
| 14 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 lion | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Beasts = beast | Side by side | down the road | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient road=Extent | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the road | to the lion's house | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to house=Patient |
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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