The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 47
After walking through the forest for a couple of miles, they all three reached the palace, and by the king’s orders servants led the charcoal-burner and his wife into rooms filled with beautiful things such as they had never even dreamed of.
Who acts: miles, servants, king · What happens: walk, reach, lead, fill, not dream, order · To what, where: forest, palace, charcoal burner, rooms, beautiful things
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, servants, king), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 walking | mark |
| 2 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 reached | advcl |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 couple | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 couple | det |
| 8 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 miles | case |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 couple | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 walking | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 three | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 led | cc |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 orders | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 orders | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 led | obl |
| 25 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 led | nsubj |
| 26 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reached | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 burner | det |
| 28 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 burner | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 charcoal | punct |
| 30 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 led | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wife | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 burner | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 rooms | case |
| 35 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 led | obl |
| 36 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 rooms | acl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 things | case |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 things | amod |
| 39 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 filled | obl |
| 40 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 46 dreamed | mark |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 such | fixed |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 dreamed | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 dreamed | aux |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 dreamed | advmod |
| 45 | even | even | ADV | _ | 46 dreamed | advmod |
| 46 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 things | acl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 dreamed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | miles = mile not said here | the forest | for a couple of miles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | miles = mile | the palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | servants | the charcoal burner and king's wife | rooms | by the king's orders | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burner=Theme by order=Destination | ||
| 4 | fill | participle | rooms not said here | with beautiful things | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with thing=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | not dream | past · perfect | servants = servant | beautiful things not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 6 | order | the king | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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