The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 71
Meanwhile the fugitives had reached the castle which was the prince’s home.
Who acts: castle · What happens: reach, be · To what, where: fugitives, home
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fugitives | det |
| 3 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 home | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 home | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the fugitives | meanwhile property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary castle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the castle | the prince's home | tree rules |
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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