The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 12
After wandering through many marble halls, he came to a huge staircase made of porphyry, leading down to a lovely garden.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: wonder, come, make, lead down · To what, where: many marble halls, huge staircase
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 wandering | mark |
| 2 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 halls | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 halls | amod |
| 5 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 halls | amod |
| 6 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wandering | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandering | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 staircase | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 staircase | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 staircase | amod |
| 13 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 staircase | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 porphyry | case |
| 16 | porphyry | porphyry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leading | punct |
| 18 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 leading | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 garden | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 22 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 garden | amod |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leading | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Iwanich not said here | many marble halls | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Iwanich | a huge staircase | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to staircase=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a huge staircase not said here | of porphyry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | lead down | gerund | Iwanich not said here | to a lovely garden; down property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to garden=Patient |
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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