The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 111
The first morning when they came to let the sentinel out, there was no sentinel there.
Who acts: king, sentinel · What happens: come, let, sentinel out, be
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sentinel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 was | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sentinel | det |
| 10 | sentinel | sentinel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sentinel | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 sentinel | det |
| 16 | sentinel | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 was | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sentinel out | infinitive | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no sentinel | there; there | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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