The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 47
After some time there appeared before me a person of high rank from his Imperial Majesty.
What happens: appear · To what, where: person
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 appeared | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rank | case |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rank | amod |
| 12 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 person | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Majesty | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Majesty | amod |
| 16 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rank | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a person of high rank from person's Imperial Majesty | there | before me; time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location person=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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