The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 110
They had almost reached the gates when a servant ran up to them.
Who acts: princes, servant · What happens: reach, run up · To what, where: gates, princes
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, servant), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gates | det |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 ran | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 servant | det |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | princes = prince | the gates | almost property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | run up | past | a servant | princes = prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to they=Result |
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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