The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 15
When he got there, the King was standing outside in the courtyard.
Who acts: Dapplegrim, King · What happens: get, stand · To what, where: courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Dapplegrim, King), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 standing | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 standing | aux |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 standing | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 courtyard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 courtyard | det |
| 13 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Dapplegrim | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the King | the courtyard | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=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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