The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 6
So he took her through the opening made by the torn-up root, and they travelled till they reached a beautiful palace, splendidly furnished, but only lighted from the top.
Who acts: man, hands · What happens: take, make, tear, travel, reach, furnish · To what, where: girl, opening, beautiful palace, top
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hands), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 opening | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 opening | det |
| 7 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 opening | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 root | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 root | det |
| 11 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 root | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 torn | punct |
| 13 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 root | compound |
| 14 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 travelled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 travelled | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 travelled | nsubj |
| 18 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 travelled | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 palace | amod |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 furnished | punct |
| 26 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 27 furnished | advmod |
| 27 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 palace | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lighted | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 lighted | cc |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 lighted | advmod |
| 31 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 top | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 top | det |
| 34 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lighted | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | girl | the opening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | participle | the opening not said here | by the torn up root | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | travel | past | hands = hand | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reach | past | hands = hand | a beautiful palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 6 | furnish | participle | a beautiful palace not said here | splendidly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | light | participle | man not said here | the top | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent from top=Material |
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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