The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 163
Then he went home, and when he came there he saw, as it were, a large church surrounded by palaces.
Who acts: flounder, water · What happens: go, come, see, be, surround · To what, where: large church
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 (flounder, water), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | advcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 church | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 church | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 church | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 church | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 church | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 church | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 church | amod |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 21 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 church | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 palaces | case |
| 23 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | flounder | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | flounder | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | flounder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | water | a large church | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | surround | participle | a large church not said here | 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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