The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 65
The Prince took the hint, and lifting aside the picture without difficulty, found himself in a marble hall adorned with statues; from this he passed on through numbers of splendid rooms, until at last he reached one all hung with blue gauze.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: take, lift, find, adorn, pass on, reach · To what, where: hint, picture, prince, marble hall, this, one
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hint | det |
| 5 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lifting | cc |
| 8 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 9 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 8 lifting | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 picture | det |
| 11 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifting | obj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 difficulty | case |
| 13 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 19 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hall | compound |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 21 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hall | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 statues | case |
| 23 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 adorned | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 this | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 passed | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 passed | nsubj |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 passed | compound:prt |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 numbers | case |
| 31 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 passed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 rooms | case |
| 33 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 rooms | amod |
| 34 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 numbers | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 reached | punct |
| 36 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 40 reached | mark |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 last | case |
| 38 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 reached | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 reached | nsubj |
| 40 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 passed | conj |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 reached | obj |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 one | fixed |
| 43 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 all | acl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 gauze | case |
| 45 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 gauze | amod |
| 46 | gauze | gauze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hung | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Prince | the hint | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift | gerund | the Prince not said here | the picture | without difficulty; aside property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | the Prince not said here | prince | a marble hall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 4 | adorn | participle | a marble hall not said here | with statues | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with statue=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pass on | past | prince | this | through numbers of splendid rooms | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from this=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | reach | past | prince | one | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 7 | hang | participle | with blue gauze | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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