The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 14
When he had led it into her palace, and through many rooms, he came to a shut door.
Who acts: king · What happens: lead, come · To what, where: pleasure, palace, many rooms
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 rooms | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rooms | amod |
| 13 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rooms | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 19 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 door | amod |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · perfect | king | pleasure | daughter's palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | king | many rooms | to a shut door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through room=Initial_Location to door=Destination |
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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