The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 12

He followed his directions, and rode on his way, and after another ninety-nine days he arrived at a golden castle, which stood in the middle of a vast wilderness.

Who acts: son, golden castle · What happens: follow, ride, arrive, stand · To what, where: directions, way, golden castle, middle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, golden castle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 directions	nmod:poss
4	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 followed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rode	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rode	cc
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arrived	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 arrived	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	18 days	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 days	det
15	ninety	ninety	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 days	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ninety	punct
17	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 days	nummod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 arrived	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 arrived	nsubj
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rode	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 castle	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 castle	det
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 castle	amod
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arrived	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 stood	nsubj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 castle	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 middle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 middle	det
30	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 wilderness	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wilderness	det
33	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wilderness	amod
34	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 middle	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	follow	past	son	son's directions			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2	ride	past			son's way		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	past	son		a golden castle	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	a golden castle		the middle of a vast wilderness		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=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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