The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 78
Then the fairies ran to open the door, and let in the horse and unbound the ropes which fastened the young king on its back.
Who acts: fairies, ropes · What happens: run, open, let, unbind, fasten · To what, where: door, ropes, young king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, ropes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fairies | det |
| 3 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 open | mark |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 open | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unbound | cc |
| 16 | unbound | unbind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ropes | det |
| 18 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 unbound | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fastened | nsubj |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ropes | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 king | amod |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fastened | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fastened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the fairies | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the fairies not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the fairies not said here | in the horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | unbind | past | the fairies not said here | the ropes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fasten | past | the ropes | the young king | on horse's back | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent king=Patient on back=Co-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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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