The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 115
When the princes entered one of the cushions fell down, and there remained only eleven.
Who acts: princes · What happens: enter, fall down, remain · To what, where: one, eleven
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 entered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cushions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cushions | det |
| 8 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remained | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 remained | cc |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 remained | advmod |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fell | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 eleven | advmod |
| 16 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 remained | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the princes | one of the cushions | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | participle | eleven | there | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eleven=Attribute |
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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