The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 34
The first land he sighted was the Island of Roses, and he went at once to the court of the King, Rosalie’s father.
Who acts: most, first land · What happens: sight, be, go · To what, where: first land, Island, court
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, first land), 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 land | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 land | amod |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Island | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sighted | nsubj |
| 5 | sighted | sight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 land | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Island | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Island | det |
| 8 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Roses | case |
| 10 | Roses | Rose | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Island | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 court | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 father | punct |
| 24 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Rosalie | case |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 King | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sight | past | most | the first land not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first land | the Island | of Roses | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | most | the court of the King and Rosalie's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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