The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 88
After a night and a day the doves alighted outside the gate of King Charming’s kingdom.
What happens: alight · To what, where: doves
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 night | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doves | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 day | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doves | det |
| 8 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 doves | acl |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alighted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | flat |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 doves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | the doves not said here | outside the gate of King's kingdom | 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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