The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 44
They had only to go across the garden to reach the tower, which was very high, and stood up in a corner.
Who acts: King, tower · What happens: have, go, reach, be, stand up · To what, where: garden, tower, corner
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, tower), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 reach | mark |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tower | det |
| 12 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 high | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 high | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tower | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 stood | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 corner | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 corner | det |
| 24 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | King not said here | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | King not said here | the tower | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the tower | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand up | past | King not said here | a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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