The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 36
Thereupon he went before the king, who followed after him, till they came to the great door.
Who acts: king, men · What happens: go, follow, come · To what, where: great door
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, men), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 followed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 followed | nsubj |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 followed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 door | amod |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | king | before the king | thereupon property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before king=Location | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the king | after king | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | men = man | the great door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_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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