The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 117
And so it was in the evening when the giant came home; and when they saw his shadow, the king crept down in front of the horses.
Who acts: rose, giant, snores, king · What happens: be, come, see, creep down, shadow · To what, where: shadow, front
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose, giant, snores, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 evening | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 evening | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 evening | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 evening | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 evening | advcl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crept | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crept | nsubj |
| 23 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shadow | acl:relcl |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 crept | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 front | case |
| 26 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crept | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 horses | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horses | det |
| 29 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 front | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | rose | in the evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the giant | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | snores = snore | giant's shadow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | creep down | past | the king | giant's shadow not said here | front of the horses | down property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | shadow | giant | nom shadow «state 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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