The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 118
The king’s palace was a long way off, yet it seemed only a few minutes before Dotterine drew up at the great gates.
Who acts: palace, it, Dotterine · What happens: be, seem, draw up · To what, where: long way, great gates
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, it, Dotterine), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADV | _ | 8 way | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 11 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 minutes | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 minutes | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 minutes | amod |
| 17 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seemed | obl |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 drew | mark |
| 19 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 drew | nsubj |
| 20 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seemed | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 drew | compound:prt |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 gates | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gates | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gates | amod |
| 25 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's palace | a long way | off property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | it | a long way not said here | minute | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute | |||
| 3 | draw up | past | Dotterine | the great gates | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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