The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 96
A sentinel was standing before the gate, and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets.
Who acts: sentinel, numbers · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: gate
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 (sentinel, numbers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sentinel | det |
| 2 | sentinel | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 were | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | conj |
| 12 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 soldiers | case |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 numbers | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 kettledrums | case |
| 16 | kettledrums | kettledrum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 soldiers | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trumpets | cc |
| 18 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kettledrums | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | a sentinel | the gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before gate=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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