The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 9
He went towards it, and perceived before him an old castle, with the door standing open.
Who acts: John, door · What happens: go, perceive, stand · To what, where: light, old castle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, door), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 perceived | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 perceived | cc |
| 7 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 perceived | obl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perceived | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 door | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perceived | obl |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 door | acl |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 standing | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | John | light | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | perceive | past | John not said here | a old castle | before John | with the door | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the door not said here | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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