The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 101
Do not rest till you reach a wide stairway, down which you will go till you come out into a spacious hall, in which there are three doors; two of them stand open, the third is fastened with locks and bolts of iron.
Who acts: you, three doors, two, iron · What happens: not rest, reach, go, come out, be, stand · To what, where: wide stairway, spacious hall, third
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three doors, two, iron), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 rest | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 rest | advmod |
| 3 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 reach | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 reach | nsubj |
| 6 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rest | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stairway | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stairway | amod |
| 9 | stairway | stairway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reach | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 go | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rest | conj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 hall | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hall | det |
| 22 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hall | amod |
| 23 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 are | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 are | obl |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 are | expl |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | parataxis |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 doors | nummod |
| 30 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 are | nsubj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 stand | punct |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 stand | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 two | nmod |
| 35 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rest | parataxis |
| 36 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stand | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fastened | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 third | det |
| 39 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 fastened | aux:pass |
| 41 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 stand | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 locks | case |
| 43 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fastened | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 bolts | cc |
| 45 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 locks | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 iron | case |
| 47 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bolts | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rest | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | present | you | a wide stairway | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stairway=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | future | down property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come out | present | you | a spacious hall | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | does | present | three doors | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 6 | stand | present | two of knees | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | fasten | present · passive | the third | with locks and bolts of iron | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with lock=Co-Patient | ||||
| 8 | bolt | iron | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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