The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 63
He went up and examined it, and found that it rested against the ebony and gold panelling, just like any of the other pictures in the gallery.
Who acts: prince, key · What happens: go up, examine, find, rest · To what, where: key, ebony · Speech: someone speaks here
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, key), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 examined | cc |
| 5 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 examined | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 rested | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rested | nsubj |
| 12 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | ccomp |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 ebony | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ebony | det |
| 15 | ebony | ebony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rested | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 panelling | cc |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 panelling | compound |
| 18 | panelling | panelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ebony | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 any | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 any | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 any | case |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 rested | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pictures | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pictures | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pictures | amod |
| 26 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 any | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 gallery | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gallery | det |
| 29 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pictures | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | prince | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | examine | past | prince not said here | key | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | prince not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rest | past | key | the ebony and gold panelling | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against ebony=Location |
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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