The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 48
I have just found his dead body lying at the Palace gate.’
Who acts: I, dead body · What happens: find, lie · To what, where: dead body, Palace gate
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dead body), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 body | amod |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 body | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 11 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | compound |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · perfect | I | brother's dead body | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | brother's dead body not said here | the Palace gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=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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