The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 84
At the sound of their chanting, another band of slaves appeared, and took possession of the unhappy Vivien.
Who acts: band, gates · What happens: appear, take, chant, possess · To what, where: sound, possession, unhappy Vivien
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 (band, gates), 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 | _ | 3 sound | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chanting | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chanting | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chanting | chanting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sound | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sound | punct |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 band | det |
| 9 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 slaves | case |
| 11 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 band | nmod |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeared | conj |
| 16 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Vivien | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Vivien | det |
| 19 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Vivien | amod |
| 20 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 possession | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | another band of slaves | the sound of gates's chanting | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | another band of slaves not said here | possession of the unhappy Vivien | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chant | gates = gate | nom chanting «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | possess | the unhappy Vivien | nom possession «act 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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