The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 47
As she turned into the courtyard of the castle the King’s son came out to meet her, tied her steed to a pillar, and led her in.
Who acts: girl · What happens: turn, come out, meet, tie, lead in · To what, where: courtyard, girl, steed
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 (girl), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 turned | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 courtyard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 courtyard | det |
| 6 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 courtyard | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 King | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 meet | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tied | punct |
| 20 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 steed | nmod:poss |
| 22 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tied | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 pillar | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pillar | det |
| 25 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tied | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 led | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 led | cc |
| 28 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 led | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 led | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | girl | the courtyard of the castle the King's son | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | girl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | tie | past | girl's steed | to a pillar | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent steed=Patient to pillar=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | lead in | past | girl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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