The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 90
At the head of the landing rows of courtiers were collected in magnificent attire, who stared at the queer old figure, and called to her, and explained to her, with every kind of sign, that it was strictly forbidden to mount those steps.
Who acts: magnificent attire · What happens: collect, stare, call, explain, forbid, mount · To what, where: head, obedient, kind, steps · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnificent attire), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collected | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rows | det |
| 6 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rows | compound |
| 7 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 head | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 courtiers | case |
| 9 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rows | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 collected | aux:pass |
| 11 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 attire | case |
| 13 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 attire | amod |
| 14 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collected | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stared | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stared | nsubj |
| 17 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 attire | acl:relcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 figure | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 figure | det |
| 20 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 old | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 figure | amod |
| 22 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stared | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 called | cc |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 collected | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 explained | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 explained | cc |
| 30 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 collected | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 explained | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 kind | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 kind | case |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 kind | det |
| 36 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 explained | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 sign | case |
| 38 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 kind | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 forbidden | punct |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 forbidden | mark |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 forbidden | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 43 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 44 forbidden | advmod |
| 44 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 collected | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 mount | mark |
| 46 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 forbidden | xcomp |
| 47 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 48 steps | det |
| 48 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 mount | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · passive | the head of the landing rows of courtiers | in magnificent attire | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | magnificent attire | at the old figure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at figure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | obedient | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | past | obedient | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | forbid | past · passive | kind | strictly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mount | to-infinitive | that steps | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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