The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 110
He followed them out, and they came to a large pond outside the farm-house.
Who acts: feast, Heavens · What happens: follow out, come · To what, where: Heavens, large pond
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, Heavens), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 followed | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pond | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pond | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pond | amod |
| 12 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 15 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 farm | punct |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pond | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow out | past | feast | Heavens = heaven | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Heavens = heaven | a large pond outside the farm house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_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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