The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 7
At last the conversation fell on a castle in the neighbourhood, about which many strange and marvellous things were told.
Who acts: last conversation · What happens: fall, tell · To what, where: castle, marvellous things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (last conversation), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 conversation | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conversation | det |
| 4 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 neighbourhood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neighbourhood | det |
| 11 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strange | punct |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 strange | obl |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 strange | amod |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 18 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 told | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux:pass |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 strange | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the last conversation | a castle | in the neighbourhood | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on castle=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | marvellous things | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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