The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 66
After some time he saw in the distance a huge black castle which commanded a view of the whole forest.
Who acts: Prince, huge black castle · What happens: see, command, view · To what, where: view, whole forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Prince, huge black castle), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 distance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 distance | det |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 castle | amod |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 distance | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 commanded | nsubj |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 castle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 view | det |
| 16 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 commanded | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 forest | amod |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 view | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | time | in the distance a huge black castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | command | past | a huge black castle | a view of the whole forest | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | view | the whole forest | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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