The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 28
He entered without difficulty, and in the hall the terrible old Fairy met him.
Who acts: Prince, terrible old Fairy · What happens: enter, meet · To what, where: Prince, hall
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, terrible old Fairy), 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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 difficulty | case |
| 4 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fairy | det |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Fairy | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Fairy | amod |
| 13 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Prince | without difficulty | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the terrible old Fairy | Prince | the hall | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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