The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 125
In the evening he came to a green field, where stood a great tree, under which he seated himself.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: come, stand, seat · To what, where: green field, great tree, Halvor
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 (Halvor), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 field | amod |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 stood | advmod |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seated | punct |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seated | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seated | nsubj |
| 20 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 seated | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Halvor | a green field | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Halvor not said here | a great tree | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | Halvor | Halvor | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
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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