The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 52
When he entered the town he saw before him a great splendid house, with soldiers standing before the gates.
Who acts: Medio, soldiers · What happens: enter, see, stand · To what, where: town, great splendid house, gates
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Medio, soldiers), 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 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soldiers | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 soldiers | case |
| 16 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 house | conj |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 soldiers | acl |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 gates | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gates | det |
| 20 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 standing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Medio | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Medio | a great splendid house and soldiers | before Madrid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | soldiers not said here | the gates | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before gate=Location |
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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