The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 16
A fire was burning in the castle, and Halvor went into the kitchen, which was more magnificent than any kitchen he had ever yet beheld.
Who acts: fire, Halvor, kitchen · What happens: burn, go, be, behold · To what, where: castle, kitchen
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 (fire, Halvor, kitchen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fire | det |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burning | aux |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burning | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burning | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 kitchen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kitchen | det |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 magnificent | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 magnificent | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 magnificent | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 magnificent | advmod |
| 19 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 kitchen | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 kitchen | det |
| 22 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 magnificent | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 beheld | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 beheld | aux |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 beheld | advmod |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 27 beheld | advmod |
| 27 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 kitchen | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · progressive | a fire | the castle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Halvor | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the kitchen | than any kitchen; magnificent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | behold | past · perfect | Halvor | any kitchen not said here | ever; yet | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kitchen=Stimulus |
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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