The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 25
At length the stag paused before a steep rock and gently let the tailor down to the ground.
Who acts: stag · What happens: pause, let · To what, where: length, tailor
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag), 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 | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stag | det |
| 4 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | nsubj |
| 5 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 8 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rock | amod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 11 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 12 let | advmod |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 paused | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tailor | det |
| 14 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 let | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 down | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | participle | the stag | length | before a steep rock | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the stag not said here | the tailor | down, gently property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Theme |
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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