The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 13
Halvor followed this, and when evening drew near he saw a big castle far away in the distance, and there were lights in it.
Who acts: Halvor, lights · What happens: follow, draw, see, be · To what, where: this, big castle
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, lights), 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 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drew | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 drew | advmod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 saw | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drew | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 castle | amod |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 saw | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 were | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 were | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 were | expl |
| 23 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drew | conj |
| 24 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 were | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lights | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Halvor | this | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | evening | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Halvor | a big castle | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | be | past | lights in distance | there | 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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