The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 74

They reached it at last, and found an empty kennel standing in front of the gate.

Who acts: dozens, empty kennel · What happens: reach, find, stand · To what, where: hill, last, empty kennel, front

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dozens, empty kennel), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reached	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reached	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kennel	det
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kennel	amod
11	kennel	kennel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
12	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kennel	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 standing	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 gate	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 front	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past	dozens = dozen	hill	last	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Asset
2	find	past	dozens = dozen not said here	a empty kennel		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kennel=Topic
3	stand	gerund	a empty kennel not said here		front of the gate	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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