The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 72
Then he saw before him a stately palace, and, entering, he found in a large hall a table set for twelve persons.
Who acts: dog · What happens: see, enter, find · To what, where: stately palace, table set, large hall
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 (dog), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 7 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entering | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 entering | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entering | punct |
| 12 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hall | amod |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 set | det |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | compound |
| 22 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 persons | case |
| 24 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 persons | nummod |
| 25 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | dog | a stately palace | before staircase; then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | enter | gerund | dog not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | dog | a table set | a large hall | for twelve persons | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent set=Theme for person=Beneficiary |
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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