The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 131
When they reached the warlike expedition of the emperor three of the cushions fell down at once.
Who acts: cushions, three · What happens: reach, fall down · To what, where: warlike expedition
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 (cushions, three), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fell | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 expedition | det |
| 5 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 expedition | amod |
| 6 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expedition | nmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cushions | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cushions | det |
| 13 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 three | nmod |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 fell | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 fell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | cushions = cushion | the warlike expedition of the emperor | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent expedition=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | three of the cushions | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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