The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 43
He hastened his steps, and quickly arrived at the gate of the palace, which was formed of a single agate.
Who acts: most · What happens: hasten, arrive, form, step · To what, where: steps, gate, palace
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 steps | nmod:poss |
| 4 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hastened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arrived | cc |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 arrived | advmod |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 gate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 formed | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 formed | aux:pass |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 palace | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 agate | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 agate | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 agate | amod |
| 22 | agate | agate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | most | most's steps | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent step=Patient | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | most not said here | the gate of the palace | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | past · passive | the palace | of a single agate | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | step | most | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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