The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 13
So the moment that her son had turned his back, she opened the doors of all the rooms, and peeped in, till she came to the one where the robbers lay.
Who acts: son, moment, head, robbers · What happens: turn, open, peep in, come, lay · To what, where: back, doors, one
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 (son, moment, head, robbers), 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 | _ | 13 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 turned | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | aux |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 doors | det |
| 15 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 opened | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rooms | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 rooms | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rooms | det |
| 19 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 doors | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 peeped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 peeped | cc |
| 22 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 opened | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 peeped | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 25 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opened | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 lay | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 robbers | det |
| 33 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 one | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · perfect | head's son | son's back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the moment | the doors of all rooms | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | peep in | participle | the moment not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | head | the one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | lay | present | the robbers | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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