The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 16
When the courtiers saw them coming they hastened to tell the King.
Who acts: courtiers, brothers · What happens: see, come, hasten, tell · To what, where: brothers, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtiers, brothers), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courtiers | det |
| 3 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hastened | nsubj |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hastened | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the courtiers | brothers = brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hasten | past | brothers = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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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