The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 123
At last he drew near the giant’s castle, and saw to his horror that every path that led to it was strewn with bones.
Who acts: help, path, horror · What happens: draw, see, lead, be · To what, where: last, path
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, path, horror), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 giant | case |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 horror | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horror | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 strewn | nsubj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 path | det |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strewn | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 path | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 strewn | cop |
| 24 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horror | acl:relcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 bones | case |
| 26 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 strewn | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | help | last | near the giant's castle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | help not said here | to help's horror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | every path | path | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | help's horror | with bones; strewn property | tree rules |
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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