The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 93
When they reached the palace the gardener’s son made a sign to his slaves, who completely undressed the new-comer.
Who acts: heralds, slaves · What happens: reach, make, undress · To what, where: palace, sign, new comer
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: who acts (heralds, slaves), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 gardener | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sign | det |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 slaves | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 15 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sign | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 undressed | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 undressed | nsubj |
| 18 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 19 undressed | advmod |
| 19 | undressed | undress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 slaves | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 comer | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 comer | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 new | punct |
| 23 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 undressed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | heralds = herald | the palace | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent palace=Beneficiary son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a sign | to son's slaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | ||||
| 3 | undress | past | son's slaves | the new comer | completely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comer=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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