The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 92
One day the maiden took him into a secret chamber, where a little gold box was standing on a silver table.
Who acts: maiden, little gold box · What happens: take, stand · To what, where: Solomon, secret chamber, silver table
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, little gold box), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chamber | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chamber | amod |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 standing | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 standing | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 box | amod |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 box | compound |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 standing | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 standing | aux |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 chamber | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 table | det |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 table | compound |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 standing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the maiden | Solomon | a secret chamber | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into chamber=Destination | ||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | a little gold box | a silver table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=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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