The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 117
There they all remained, till they were joined by the old man.
Who acts: dishes, old man · What happens: remain, join · To what, where: dishes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishes, old man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 remained | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 remained | advmod |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joined | punct |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 joined | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 joined | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 joined | aux:pass |
| 9 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 remained | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joined | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | dishes = dish | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | join | past · passive | the old man | dishes = dish | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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