The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 9
When he came to the guard-room of the castle he threw one of the grains in there, and the guards at once fell asleep.
Who acts: prince, guards · What happens: come, throw, fall · To what, where: guard room, one
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, guards), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 6 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 guard | punct |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | nsubj |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 castle | acl:relcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 grains | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grains | det |
| 17 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 there | case |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 grains | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 guards | det |
| 23 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 once | case |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 guards | nmod |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 27 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | prince | the guard room of the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | prince | one of the grains | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the guards | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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 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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