The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 41
They entered the castle and walked through twelve splendid halls, all made of gold and diamonds.
Who acts: speech, twelve splendid halls · What happens: enter, walk, make · To what, where: castle, twelve splendid halls, all
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speech, twelve splendid halls), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 castle | det |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 walked | cc |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 halls | case |
| 8 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 halls | nummod |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 halls | amod |
| 10 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 halls | acl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 diamonds | cc |
| 17 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gold | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | speech | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | speech not said here | twelve splendid halls | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | participle · passive | twelve splendid halls not said here | all | of gold and diamonds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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