The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 131
Inside the palace were walking barons, counts, and dukes, acting as servants; they opened the door, which was of beaten gold.
Who acts: palace, barons, door · What happens: walk, count, act, open, beat, be · To what, where: barons, dukes, palace, door
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, barons, door), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 palace | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 counts | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 palace | acl |
| 6 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 walking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 palace | punct |
| 8 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dukes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dukes | cc |
| 11 | dukes | duke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 counts | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 acting | punct |
| 13 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 counts | advcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 servants | case |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 acting | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 opened | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 opened | nsubj |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 counts | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gold | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 gold | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gold | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 25 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 gold | amod |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 door | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 counts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the palace not said here | barons | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme baron=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | count | present | dukes | the palace | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | act | gerund | as servants | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as servant=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | open | past | barons = baron | the door and beaten gold | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | the door and beaten gold | of beaten gold | 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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