The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 47
At length he came to the door of a fine castle, which had a blaze streaming from every window.
Who acts: man, fine castle, blaze · What happens: come, have, stream · To what, where: length, blaze, window
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fine castle, blaze), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 castle | amod |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 castle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blaze | det |
| 16 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 blaze | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 streaming | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | length | to the door of a fine castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a fine castle | a blaze | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blaze=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stream | gerund | a blaze not said here | every window | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from window=Source |
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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