English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 109
The King was quite struck with the sight of the castle; and going up the golden stairs, went to see the inside.
What happens: strike, go up, go, see, sight · To what, where: King, golden stairs, inside, castle
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 struck | advmod |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 went | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 stairs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stairs | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stairs | amod |
| 18 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 going | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struck | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 inside | det |
| 24 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | the King | with the sight of the castle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sight=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | the golden stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the inside | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inside=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | sight | the castle | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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