The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 8
The prince next dragged the headless bodies into a chamber in the cave, and locked the door.
Who acts: prince · What happens: drag, lock · To what, where: headless bodies, chamber, door
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 (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | nsubj |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 dragged | advmod |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bodies | det |
| 6 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bodies | amod |
| 7 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dragged | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chamber | det |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chamber | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 locked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 locked | cc |
| 16 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dragged | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 locked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | the prince | the headless bodies | a chamber in the cave | next property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||
| 2 | lock | past | the prince not said here | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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