The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 17
At length, guided by the light, he reached the door of the most splendid castle he could have imagined.
Who acts: two · What happens: guide, reach, imagine · To what, where: length, door, splendid castle
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guided | punct |
| 4 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 length | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 light | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guided | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 splendid | advmod |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | amod |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 imagined | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 imagined | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 imagined | aux |
| 21 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 castle | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | participle | length not said here | by the light | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by light=Destination | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | two | the door of the splendid castle | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent door=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 3 | imagine | could · perfect | two | the splendid castle not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot castle=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 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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