The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 48
So when he had walked the whole day, he too came to the King’s palace as darkness began to fall.
Who acts: Cinderlad, darkness · What happens: walk, come, begin, fall · To what, where: palace
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 (Cinderlad, darkness), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | aux |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 began | mark |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fall | mark |
| 22 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | Cinderlad | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Cinderlad | the King's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | darkness | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fall | to-infinitive | darkness not said here | vn occur-48.3 «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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