The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 102
It was all but dark when they got back to the King at nightfall, and he himself was standing in the courtyard waiting for them.
Who acts: back, foals, Cinderlad · What happens: be, get back, stand, wait · To what, where: nightfall, courtyard
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, foals, Cinderlad), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dark | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dark | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 dark | advmod |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 dark | cc |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dark | advcl |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 nightfall | case |
| 14 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 standing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 standing | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 standing | nsubj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 standing | aux |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 got | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 courtyard | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 courtyard | det |
| 23 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 standing | obl |
| 24 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 standing | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 waiting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | back | all, dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get back | past | foals = foal | nightfall | to the King result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | |||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | Cinderlad | the courtyard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in courtyard=Location | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | Cinderlad not said here | for foals = foal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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