The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 23
As he met with no hindrance, he soon reached the enchanted wood which surrounded the castle, and there he thought he saw the Princess Sunbeam gliding before him among the trees.
Who acts: Prince, Princess Sunbeam · What happens: meet, reach, enchant, surround, think, see · To what, where: enchanted wood, Princess Sunbeam, trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Princess Sunbeam), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 met | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | advcl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hindrance | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 hindrance | det |
| 6 | hindrance | hindrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 reached | advmod |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 12 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wood | amod |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wood | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surrounded | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thought | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 thought | expl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sunbeam | det |
| 26 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Sunbeam | compound |
| 27 | Sunbeam | Sunbeam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 28 | gliding | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 saw | xcomp |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gliding | obl |
| 31 | among | among | ADP | _ | 33 trees | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 trees | det |
| 33 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gliding | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Prince | with no hindrance | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hindrance=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Prince | the enchanted wood | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | |||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | surround | participle · passive | the enchanted wood | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Prince | there | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | past | Prince | the Princess Sunbeam | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | glide | gerund | the Princess Sunbeam not said here | the trees | before Prince | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme before he=Source among tree=Trajectory |
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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