The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 2

It was as small as kingdoms usually were in old times, and when the king went up to the roof of his palace and took a look round he could see to the ends of it in every direction.

Who acts: kingdom, king · What happens: be, go up, take, see · To what, where: look, direction

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, king), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 kingdoms	case
6	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	obl
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 times	advmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 times	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 times	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kingdoms	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 went	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 went	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 roof	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roof	det
21	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 palace	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 palace	nmod:poss
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roof	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 look	det
28	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	round	round	ADP	_	32 see	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 took	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 ends	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ends	det
35	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 see	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ends	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 direction	case
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 direction	det
40	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	kingdom				as kingdoms; small property	tree rules
2	is	past				in old times	usually property	tree rules
3	go up	past	the king				to the roof of king's palace	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	take	past	the king not said here	a look				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme
5	see	could	king		every direction	to the ends of kingdom		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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