The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 92
The attendants all ran forward to thrust such impudent youngsters outside the palace, but the boys slipped through their fingers like quicksilver, and entered a large hall, where the emperor was dining, surrounded by his whole court.
Who acts: attendants, boys, emperor · What happens: run, slip, enter, dine, surround · To what, where: fingers, large hall
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 (attendants, boys, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 attendants | det |
| 2 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thrust | case |
| 7 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 youngsters | amod |
| 9 | impudent | impudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 youngsters | amod |
| 10 | youngsters | youngster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thrust | appos |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 youngsters | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slipped | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 slipped | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boys | det |
| 17 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slipped | nsubj |
| 18 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 fingers | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slipped | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 quicksilver | case |
| 23 | quicksilver | quicksilver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fingers | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entered | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 entered | cc |
| 26 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hall | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hall | amod |
| 29 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entered | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dining | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 dining | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 emperor | det |
| 33 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dining | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 dining | aux |
| 35 | dining | dine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 entered | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 surrounded | punct |
| 37 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 dining | acl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 court | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 court | nmod:poss |
| 40 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 court | amod |
| 41 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the attendants | to thrust result; all, forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to thrust=Result | ||||
| 2 | slip | past | the boys | boys's fingers like quicksilver | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the attendants not said here | a large hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 4 | dine | past · progressive | the emperor | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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