The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 71
When they came near to this castle, which looked as if it was of pure glass, the youth ran on in front as the king’s fool.
Who acts: kings, castle, youth · What happens: come, look, be, run on · To what, where: castle, front
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, castle, youth), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ran | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 castle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 glass | case |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 glass | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 glass | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 16 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 glass | amod |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ran | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 front | case |
| 24 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 fool | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fool | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 king | case |
| 29 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | kings = king | this castle | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | past | this castle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | castle | as pure glass | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run on | past | the youth | front | as the king's fool | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
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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