The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 48
He never left her side as they passed through the castle rooms; and all the people gazed at her, and wondered who the lovely maiden was, and from what castle she came; but no one knew her—no one knew anything about her.
Who acts: King, steeds, people, lovely maiden, castle, one · What happens: not leave, pass, gaze, wonder, be, come · To what, where: side, castle rooms, castle, girl, anything
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 (King, steeds, people, lovely maiden), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 side | nmod:poss |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 passed | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | advcl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 rooms | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rooms | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rooms | compound |
| 12 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gazed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 all | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gazed | nsubj |
| 18 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gazed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wondered | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wondered | cc |
| 23 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gazed | conj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 wondered | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 maiden | det |
| 26 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 maiden | amod |
| 27 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 who | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 who | cop |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 what | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 what | cc |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 what | case |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 gazed | parataxis |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 what | nsubj |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 castle | acl:relcl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 knew | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 knew | cc |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 one | det |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 knew | nsubj |
| 40 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 knew | obj |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 knew | punct |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 one | det |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 knew | nsubj |
| 45 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 46 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 knew | obj |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 anything | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past | King | girl's side | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | steeds = steed | the castle rooms | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through room=Location | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | all people | at girl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | all people not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the lovely maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | past | castle | castle not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location castle=Theme | ||||
| 7 | know | past | no one | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | know | past | no one | anything | about girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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