The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 171
They put him in the right way, and when he came in front of the castle it was so full of horses and people that it swarmed with them.
Who acts: clothes, Halvor, way · What happens: put, come, be, swarm · To what, where: Halvor, right way, front
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 (clothes, Halvor, way), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 front | nmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 full | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 full | advmod |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 horses | case |
| 23 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 people | cc |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 horses | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 swarmed | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 swarmed | nsubj |
| 28 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | advcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 swarmed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | clothes | Halvor | the right way | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in way=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | Halvor | front of the castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | way | of horses and people; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swarm | past | way | with clothes | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with they=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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