The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 15
Nevertheless, the nearer he came to the castle the more afraid he was.
Who acts: Halvor · What happens: come, be · To what, where: 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), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nearer | det |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 afraid | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 afraid | advmod |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | cop |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Halvor | the castle | nevertheless property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | Halvor | afraid property | tree rules |
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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