The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 9
At last he came to a glass palace, which stood at the bottom of the sea.
Who acts: troll, glass palace · What happens: come, stand · To what, where: last, bottom
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 (troll, glass palace), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | compound |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 palace | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 bottom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bottom | det |
| 14 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bottom | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | troll | last | to a glass palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a glass palace | the bottom of the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=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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