The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 61
When he came near, there stood a great stone palace, and his wife was standing on the steps, about to enter.
Who acts: flounder, wife · What happens: come, stand, enter · To what, where: great stone palace
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, wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | expl |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | compound |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 standing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 standing | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 standing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 standing | aux |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 steps | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 steps | det |
| 20 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 standing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 enter | punct |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 enter | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 enter | mark |
| 24 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 standing | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | flounder | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a great stone palace | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | flounder's wife | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive | flounder's wife not said here | about property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: 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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