The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 47
At last the travellers reached the capital, and were received with regal magnificence.
Who acts: last travellers · What happens: reach, receive · To what, where: capital
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last travellers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 travellers | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 travellers | det |
| 4 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 capital | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 received | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 received | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | aux:pass |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reached | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 magnificence | case |
| 13 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 magnificence | amod |
| 14 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the last travellers | the capital | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent capital=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | the last travellers not said here | with regal magnificence | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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