The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 44
The minister’s son was lodged in a grand inn, the gardener’s son and the old woman dismounted at the inn for beggars.
What happens: lodge, dismount · To what, where: son, grand inn, old woman, inn
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 minister | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodged | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lodged | aux:pass |
| 6 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 inn | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 inn | det |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 inn | amod |
| 10 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gardener | det |
| 13 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 gardener | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inn | vocative |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 woman | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inn | conj |
| 20 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 woman | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 inn | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 inn | det |
| 23 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dismounted | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 beggars | case |
| 25 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 inn | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lodged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lodge | past · passive | the minister's son | a grand inn and the old woman | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in inn=Location | ||||
| 2 | dismount | participle | the old woman not said here | the inn for beggars | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 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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