The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 126
So she led him into a courtyard where stood a great boulder-stone.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: lead, stand · To what, where: finger, courtyard, great boulder stone
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 courtyard | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 courtyard | det |
| 7 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 courtyard | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stone | amod |
| 12 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 boulder | punct |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | maiden | finger | a courtyard | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into courtyard=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a great boulder stone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus |
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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