The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 57
Then, bowing to his guests, he left the room.
Who acts: end · What happens: bow, leave · To what, where: room
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 (end), 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 | 9 left | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 left | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 guests | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 guests | nmod:poss |
| 6 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bowing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | gerund | end not said here | to end's guests | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to guest=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | end | the room | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
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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