The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 23
The wall stood there before his eyes, exactly as he had bespoken it!
Who acts: wall · What happens: stand, bespeak · To what, where: eyes, message
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wall), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wall | det |
| 2 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bespoken | punct |
| 9 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 13 bespoken | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 bespoken | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bespoken | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bespoken | aux |
| 13 | bespoken | bespeak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bespoken | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the wall | wall's eyes; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eye=Location | ||||
| 2 | bespeak | past · perfect | wall | message | exactly property | tree rules |
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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