The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 101
They stopped the vessel right in front of the palace, and the young man went in and bowed low before the king.
Who acts: people, young man · What happens: stop, go in, bow · To what, where: vessel, front
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, young man), 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 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vessel | det |
| 4 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 front | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bowed | cc |
| 19 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 went | conj |
| 20 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 bowed | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bowed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | people | the vessel | front of the palace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality vessel=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | go in | past | the young man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bow | participle | the young man not said here | before the king | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location |
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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