The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 36

Stepping up to one of them, he saw within it what looked like a model in miniature of a fine castle surrounded by farms, barns, stables, and a number of other buildings.

Who acts: floor · What happens: step up, see, look, surround · To what, where: one, fine castle

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 (floor), 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	Stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Stepping	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Stepping	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stepping	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	within	within	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	parataxis
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 model	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 model	det
16	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 miniature	case
18	miniature	miniature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 castle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 castle	det
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 castle	amod
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 miniature	nmod
23	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 castle	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 farms	case
25	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surrounded	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 barns	punct
27	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 farms	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stables	punct
29	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 farms	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 number	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 number	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 number	det
33	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 buildings	case
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 buildings	amod
36	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 number	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	step up	gerund	floor not said here		one of boxes		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to one=Destination
2	see	past	floor			within curiosity	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	past				like a model; in miniature of a fine castle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in miniature=Theme
4	surround	participle		a fine castle not said here		by farms and barns and stables	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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