The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 50

So they all travelled together till they arrived at a very ordinary-looking house, which Aveline pointed out as the castle of the White Demon, and told the king that he might put down his bundle in the courtyard.

Who acts: men, Aveline, king · What happens: travel, arrive, look, point out, tell, put down · To what, where: looking house, king, bundle, courtyard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Aveline, king), 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	_	4 travelled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travelled	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 travelled	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	15 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 ordinary	advmod
12	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looking	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 ordinary	punct
14	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pointed	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 pointed	obj
18	Aveline	Aveline	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 pointed	nsubj
19	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 house	acl:relcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 pointed	compound:prt
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 castle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 castle	det
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pointed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 Demon	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Demon	det
26	White	White	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Demon	amod
27	Demon	Demon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 castle	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 told	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 told	cc
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	obj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 put	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 put	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 put	aux
36	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 told	ccomp
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 put	compound:prt
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bundle	nmod:poss
39	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 courtyard	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 courtyard	det
42	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	men = man				together property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive	past	men = man			a looking house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	point out	past	Aveline	a looking house			as the castle of the White Demon	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	past	men = man not said here		the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
6	put down	might	king	king's bundle		the courtyard		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme in courtyard=Destination

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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