More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 22

So he came up very quietly, till at last he came up to the door of the castle, and he tried whether he could open it.

Who acts: Scrapefoot · What happens: come up, try, open · To what, where: last, castle

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 quietly	advmod
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 castle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tried	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tried	nsubj
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 open	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 open	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 open	aux
27	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tried	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 open	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Scrapefoot			quietly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come up	past	Scrapefoot		last	to the door of the castle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	try	past	Scrapefoot				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	open not said to happen	could	Scrapefoot	castle			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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