The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 74
When the youth entered he found many splendid chambers, each one finer than the last.
Who acts: youth, mortal · What happens: enter, find · To what, where: many splendid chambers
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 (youth, mortal), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chambers | amod |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chambers | amod |
| 9 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 finer | punct |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finer | nsubj |
| 13 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 chambers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 last | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 finer | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the youth | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | mortal | many splendid chambers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Topic |
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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