The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 5
The King was standing outside on the steps, and asked where he was going.
Who acts: King · What happens: stand, ask, go · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 4 standing | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 standing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 going | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the King | on the steps; outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | King | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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