The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 45
He made the youth follow him through dark secret passages, underground vaults, and grey rocks till at last they came to an open field, which looked as if it belonged to a more beautiful world than ours.
Who acts: beard, youth, grey rocks, rocks, open field, field · What happens: make, follow, till, come, look, belong · To what, where: beard, dark secret passages, last, open field
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, youth, grey rocks, rocks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 passages | case |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passages | amod |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passages | amod |
| 10 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vaults | punct |
| 12 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vaults | amod |
| 13 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passages | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 till | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 till | cc |
| 16 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rocks | amod |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 till | nsubj |
| 18 | till | till | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 till | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 till | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 field | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 field | det |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 field | amod |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looked | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 looked | nsubj |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 field | acl:relcl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 belonged | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 belonged | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 belonged | nsubj |
| 33 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 looked | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 beautiful | advmod |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 world | amod |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 belonged | obl |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 ours | case |
| 40 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 belonged | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | beard | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | present | the youth | beard | dark secret passages and underground vaults | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through passage=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | till | present | grey rocks | last | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | rocks = rock | a open field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | look | past | a open field | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | belong a condition, not said to happen | past | field | to a beautiful world; than ours | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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