The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 87
So they went on their way and entered the palace, and there in the hall stood a cupboard in which lay the ready-made bridal shirt, looking for all the world as though it were made of gold and silver.
Who acts: ravens, cupboard · What happens: go, enter, stand, lie, make, look · To what, where: way, palace, cupboard, hall, made bridal shirt
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ravens, cupboard), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 entered | cc |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 stood | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cupboard | det |
| 19 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cupboard | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shirt | det |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 made | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 shirt | amod |
| 27 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shirt | amod |
| 28 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 looking | punct |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 stood | advcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 world | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looking | obl |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 made | advmod |
| 36 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 39 made | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 made | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 made | aux:pass |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 looking | advcl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 gold | case |
| 41 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 silver | cc |
| 43 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gold | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | ravens = raven | ravens's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | ravens = raven not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | ravens = raven not said here | a cupboard | the hall; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cupboard=Theme in hall=Destination | |||
| 4 | lie | past | a cupboard | the made bridal shirt | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shirt=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 6 | look | gerund | ravens = raven not said here | for all world | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | past · passive | palace | of gold and silver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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