The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 172
The old man led him back to the castle and showed him in a cellar three chests of gold.
Who acts: old man · What happens: lead back, show · To what, where: person, castle, man
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 showed | cc |
| 11 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 showed | iobj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cellar | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cellar | det |
| 15 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showed | obl |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 chests | nummod |
| 17 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 showed | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chests | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead back | past | the old man | person | the castle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | past | the old man not said here | man | in a cellar | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in cellar=Topic |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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