The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 132
And when he entered, he saw his wife upon a throne which was made out of a single block of gold, and which was quite six cubits high.
Who acts: door · What happens: enter, see, make out, be · To what, where: wife, throne, single block
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 entered | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 throne | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 throne | det |
| 12 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 throne | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 block | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 block | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 block | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 block | amod |
| 20 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 block | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 high | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 high | cc |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 high | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 high | cop |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 six | advmod |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 cubits | nummod |
| 29 | cubits | cubit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 high | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | door | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | door | door's wife | upon a throne | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | make out | past · passive | a throne | a single block of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | six cubits obl:unmarked; high property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/132/