The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 72
On leaving the temple the Invisible Prince saw six paths lying before him, each of which led through the wood.
Who acts: Invisible Prince, six paths, each · What happens: leave, see, lie, lead · To what, where: temple, six paths, wood
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Invisible Prince, six paths, each), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 temple | det |
| 4 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 6 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Prince | compound |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 paths | nummod |
| 10 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 paths | acl |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 led | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 each | nmod |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the Invisible Prince not said here | the temple | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Invisible Prince | six paths | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | six paths not said here | before Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | each | the wood | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=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 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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