The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 62
When he entered it all the windows shook and clattered in the strangest way, but the Prince did not heed them; he was looking so carefully for the place where the sun shone most brightly, and it seemed to him that it was upon the portrait of a most splendidly handsome young man.
Who acts: prince, windows, sun, it · What happens: enter, shake, clatter, not heed, look, shine · To what, where: key, strangest way, windows, prince
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (prince, windows, sun, it), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shook | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 windows | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 windows | det |
| 7 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shook | nsubj |
| 8 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clattered | cc |
| 10 | clattered | clatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shook | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clattered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 heed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 heed | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heed | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 heed | advmod |
| 21 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shook | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heed | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 looking | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looking | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 looking | aux |
| 26 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shook | advcl |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 carefully | advmod |
| 28 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 26 looking | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looking | obl |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 shone | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sun | det |
| 34 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shone | nsubj |
| 35 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 place | acl:relcl |
| 36 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 37 brightly | advmod |
| 37 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 35 shone | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 seemed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 seemed | cc |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 seemed | nsubj |
| 41 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shook | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 seemed | obl |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 portrait | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 portrait | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 portrait | cop |
| 47 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 49 portrait | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 portrait | det |
| 49 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seemed | xcomp |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 man | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 man | det |
| 52 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 53 splendidly | advmod |
| 53 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 54 handsome | advmod |
| 54 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 man | amod |
| 55 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 man | amod |
| 56 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 portrait | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | prince | key | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | all windows | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | clatter | participle | all windows not said here | the strangest way | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 4 | not heed | past · do-support | the Prince | windows = window | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | past · progressive | prince | for the place; carefully property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shine | past | the sun | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | seem | past | it | prince | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | past | sun | upon the portrait; of a handsome young man | tree rules |
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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