The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 58
When the king reached the chapel, he pulled up his horse and asked if a girl and a young man had passed that way.
Who acts: king · What happens: reach, pull up, ask, pass · To what, where: chapel, horse, girl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chapel | det |
| 6 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | nsubj |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pulled | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulled | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | conj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 passed | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 man | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | conj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | aux |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the king | the chapel | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent chapel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull up | past | king | king's horse | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent horse=Result | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pass a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | a girl and a young man | that way obl:unmarked | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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