The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 49
The youth grew more and more astonished when the little grey man led him into a castle far bigger and more splendid than the one they had left.
Who acts: youth, little grey man, stars · What happens: grow, lead, leave · To what, where: youth, castle, one
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 (youth, little grey man, stars), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 astonished | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 astonished | advmod |
| 7 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 led | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 11 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | nsubj |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 astonished | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 led | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obl |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 bigger | advmod |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 castle | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 splendid | cc |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 splendid | advmod |
| 22 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bigger | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 splendid | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 left | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 left | aux |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 one | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the youth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | the little grey man | youth | a castle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into castle=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | stars = star | the one not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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