The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 76
On the other side of the lake the garden boy saw a beautiful castle splendidly illuminated, whence came the lively music of fiddles, kettle-drums, and trumpets.
Who acts: garden boy · What happens: see, illuminate, come · To what, where: beautiful castle, other side, lively music
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden boy), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boy | compound |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 16 illuminated | advmod |
| 16 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 castle | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 music | det |
| 21 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 music | amod |
| 22 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fiddles | case |
| 24 | fiddles | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 music | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drums | punct |
| 26 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drums | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 kettle | punct |
| 28 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fiddles | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 trumpets | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 trumpets | cc |
| 31 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the garden boy | a beautiful castle | the other side of the lake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | illuminate | participle | a beautiful castle not said here | splendidly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the garden boy not said here | the lively music of fiddles and kettle drums | trumpets obl; whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=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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