The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 114
And beside him sat the empress, supported by twelve cushions.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: sit, support · To what, where: empress
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 (emperor), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 empress | det |
| 6 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 supported | punct |
| 8 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 empress | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 cushions | case |
| 10 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 cushions | nummod |
| 11 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 supported | obl:agent |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | emperor | the empress | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location empress=Theme | ||||
| 2 | support | participle | the empress not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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