The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 146
Already a new Emperor had been chosen, and the people stood outside in the street and asked the First Lord how the old Emperor was.
Who acts: people, old Emperor · What happens: choose, stand, ask, be · To what, where: new Emperor, street, First Lord
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, old Emperor), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 7 chosen | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Emperor | amod |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 chosen | aux:pass |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | conj |
| 13 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 street | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 street | det |
| 16 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lord | det |
| 20 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 Lord | amod |
| 21 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obl |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 was | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Emperor | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Emperor | amod |
| 25 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asked | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · perfect · passive | a new Emperor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the people | the street | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the people not said here | the First Lord | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be | past | the old Emperor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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