The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 154
Talking in this way they drew near to the castle.
Who acts: ways · What happens: talk, draw · To what, where: way, castle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ways), 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 | Talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talking | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 way | acl:relcl |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 drew | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | this way | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | ways = way | this way not said here | the castle | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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