The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 91

Accordingly that very night I set about it, and coming to the place, I understood he was placed at the further end of a long dark vault, which I slowly entered.

Who acts: I · What happens: set, come, understand, place, enter · To what, where: place, bishop, further end, long dark vault · 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 (I), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 night	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 understood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 understood	cc
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 understood	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 understood	nsubj
17	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 placed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 placed	aux:pass
20	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 understood	ccomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 end	det
23	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 end	amod
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 placed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 vault	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 vault	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 vault	amod
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 vault	amod
29	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 end	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 entered	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 entered	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 entered	nsubj
33	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	34 entered	advmod
34	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 vault	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	I			night	about neighbourhood	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination
2	come	gerund	I not said here		the place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	understand	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	place	past · passive		bishop		at the further end of a long dark vault		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at end=Destination
5	enter	past	I	a long dark vault			slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Destination

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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