The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 2
Seeing that death was drawing near her, she called the King to her and spoke as follows:
Who acts: death · What happens: see, draw, call, speak, follow · To what, where: King, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 called | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 drawing | mark |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawing | aux |
| 5 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Seeing | advcl |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drawing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 follows | mark |
| 18 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoke | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | death not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | draw | past · progressive | death | near Ireland | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | past | death | the King | Ireland | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | death not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | follow | present | death not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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