The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 38
At this time there was in the palace a knight who was called Sir Red.
What happens: be, call · To what, where: palace, knight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 palace | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | appos |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 knight | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Red | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the palace | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | a knight | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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