The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 58
All Peter’s plans had succeeded, and he actually held in his hand the magic root—that master-key which would unlock all doors, and bring its possessor unheard-of luck.
Who acts: plans, Peter, master key · What happens: succeed, hold, unlock, bring, plan · To what, where: magic root, hand, doors, possessor
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plans, Peter, master key), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Peter | det |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plans | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Peter | case |
| 4 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 succeeded | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 succeeded | aux |
| 6 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 held | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 held | nsubj |
| 10 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 11 held | advmod |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 succeeded | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 root | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 root | amod |
| 17 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 key | punct |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 key | det |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 key | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 master | punct |
| 22 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 root | conj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 unlock | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 unlock | aux |
| 25 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 key | acl:relcl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 doors | det |
| 27 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 unlock | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bring | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bring | cc |
| 30 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 succeeded | conj |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 possessor | nmod:poss |
| 32 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bring | obj |
| 33 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bring | xcomp |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 unheard | punct |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 luck | case |
| 36 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 unheard | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past · perfect | all Peter's plans | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | past | Peter | the magic root and that master key | Peter's hand | actually property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent root=Theme in hand=Location | ||
| 3 | unlock | would | that master key | all doors | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | all Peter's plans not said here | plan's possessor | unheard property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent possessor=Theme | |||
| 5 | plan | all Peter | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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