The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 22
The Emperor and his whole Court stood on the shore awaiting me.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: stand, await · To what, where: shore, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Court | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Court | nmod:poss |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Court | amod |
| 6 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Emperor | conj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 awaiting | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Emperor and Emperor's whole Court | the shore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | ||||
| 2 | await | gerund | the Emperor and Emperor's whole Court not said here | me | 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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