The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 89
So the ladies-in-waiting had to go down to him again.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: have, go down · To what, where: Emperor
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ladies | det |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 waiting | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ladies | conj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the ladies and waiting | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go down | to-infinitive | the ladies and waiting not said here | Emperor | again | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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