The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 100
As soon as it was daylight Prince Milan stepped out of his room, and found a palace which was quite a work of art down to the very smallest detail.
Who acts: palace, Prince Milan · What happens: be, step out, find · To what, where: room, palace, work
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, Prince Milan), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 stepped | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 daylight | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 daylight | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daylight | cop |
| 6 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soon | obl |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Milan | compound |
| 8 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | nsubj |
| 9 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stepped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stepped | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 work | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 work | cop |
| 21 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 work | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 work | det |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | acl:relcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 art | case |
| 25 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 work | nmod |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 found | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 detail | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 detail | det |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 smallest | advmod |
| 30 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 detail | amod |
| 31 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | palace | as daylight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | step out | past | Prince Milan | Milan's room | soon property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location room=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | Prince Milan not said here | a palace | to the smallest detail; down property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Topic | |||
| 4 | is a | past | a palace | quite work | of art | tree rules |
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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