The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 15
So down they went together, and the King seeing about two hundred great casks ranged side by side, asked if it was only for herself that she had this immense store of wine.
Who acts: King, hundred great casks, side, castle · What happens: go together, see about, range, ask, be, have · To what, where: hundred great casks, side, immense store · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, hundred great casks, side, castle), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seeing | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seeing | nsubj |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 hundred | advmod |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 casks | nummod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 casks | amod |
| 15 | casks | cask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seeing | obj |
| 16 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 casks | acl |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ranged | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 herself | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 herself | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 herself | cop |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 herself | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 herself | case |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 asked | ccomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 had | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 asked | ccomp |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 store | det |
| 32 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 store | amod |
| 33 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wine | case |
| 35 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 store | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | King | down, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see about | gerund | the King | hundred great casks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cask=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | range | participle | hundred great casks not said here | side by side | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | side | for castle | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | past | castle | this immense store of wine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient |
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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