The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 10
Then he got up and walked towards a beautiful white palace which he saw gleaming in the distance.
Who acts: Iwanich, beautiful white palace · What happens: get up, walk, see, gleam · To what, where: beautiful white palace
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich, beautiful white palace), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 walked | cc |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 saw | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 palace | acl:relcl |
| 15 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 distance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gleaming | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Iwanich | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | Iwanich not said here | a beautiful white palace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Iwanich | a beautiful white palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gleam | gerund | a beautiful white palace not said here | in the distance | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=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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