The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 49
When the prince came nearer he saw two gallows erected, and when he entered the inn along with the princess he saw that all the rooms were hung with black, and that everything inside foreboded sorrow and death.
Who acts: prince, everything · What happens: come, see, erect, enter, hang, forebode · To what, where: two gallows, inn, princess, rooms, sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, everything), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 5 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 gallows | nummod |
| 9 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gallows | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entered | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 entered | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 inn | det |
| 17 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 princess | acl:relcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 hung | mark |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 rooms | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rooms | det |
| 27 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hung | aux:pass |
| 29 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 saw | ccomp |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 black | case |
| 31 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hung | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 foreboded | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 foreboded | cc |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 everything | det |
| 35 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 foreboded | nsubj |
| 36 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 37 foreboded | advmod |
| 37 | foreboded | forebode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 38 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 foreboded | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 death | cc |
| 40 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sorrow | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the prince | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | prince | two gallows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gallows=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | erect | participle | two gallows not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | enter | past | prince | the inn | along the princess | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inn=Destination | |||
| 5 | see | past | prince | the princess not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hang | past · passive | all rooms | with black | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with black=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | forebode | past | everything | sorrow and death | inside property | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sorrow=Topic |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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