The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 27
In the good man’s house, too, preparations were made to go to the palace.
Who acts: preparations · What happens: make, go · To what, where: preparations, house, palace
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 house | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
| 10 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | preparations | the good man's house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | preparations not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_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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