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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 11

As soon as he had lifted the maiden on to his horse the old woman showed him the way, and the King reached his palace, where the wedding was celebrated.

Who acts: king, old woman · What happens: lift on, show, reach, celebrate · To what, where: maiden, horse, way, king, palace, wedding

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, old woman), 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

advmodadvmodmarknsubjauxadvcldetobjcompound:prtcasenmod:possobldetamodnsubjiobjdetobjpunctccdetnsubjconjnmod:possobjpunctadvmoddetnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclpunctrootAsADVsoonADVasSCONJhePRONhadAUXliftedVERBtheDETmaidenNOUNonADPtoADPhisPRONhorseNOUNtheDEToldADJwomanNOUNshowedVERBhimPRONtheDETwayNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETKingPROPNreachedVERBhisPRONpalaceNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVtheDETweddingNOUNwasAUXcelebratedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos16 showedadvmod
3asasSCONJ_6 liftedmark
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 liftednsubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 liftedaux
6liftedliftVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 soonadvcl
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 maidendet
8maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing6 liftedobj
9ononADP_6 liftedcompound:prt
10totoADP_12 horsecase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 horsenmod:poss
12horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing6 liftedobl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 womandet
14oldoldADJDegree=Pos15 womanamod
15womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing16 showednsubj
16showedshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 showediobj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 waydet
19waywayNOUNNumber=Sing16 showedobj
20,,PUNCT_24 reachedpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 reachedcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Kingdet
23KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing24 reachednsubj
24reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 showedconj
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 palacenmod:poss
26palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing24 reachedobj
27,,PUNCT_32 celebratedpunct
28wherewhereADVPronType=Rel32 celebratedadvmod
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 weddingdet
30weddingweddingNOUNNumber=Sing32 celebratednsubj:pass
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 celebratedaux:pass
32celebratedcelebrateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 palaceacl:relcl
33..PUNCT_16 showedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lift onpast · perfectkingthe maidenking's horsevn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme to horse=Destination
2showpastthe old womanthe waykingsoon propertyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
3reachpastthe Kingking's palacevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
4celebratepast · passivethe weddingvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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