The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 45
So he bade Hans follow him through other rooms, till they entered one bigger than a church, filled, like the rest, with gold and silver.
Who acts: host, Hans · What happens: follow, enter, fill · To what, where: present, other rooms
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (host, Hans), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 follow | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hans | compound |
| 4 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 he | conj |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 rooms | case |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rooms | amod |
| 9 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entered | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 entered | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | parataxis |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bigger | nummod |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 entered | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bigger | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 entered | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rest | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 rest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rest | det |
| 24 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gold | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rest | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 silver | cc |
| 29 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gold | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | host | present | other rooms | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through room=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | enter | past | Hans = han | big property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | Hans = han not said here | like the rest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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