The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 73
But no, the keys were safe in their usual place, and the cupboard looked quite untouched.
Who acts: keys, cupboard · What happens: be, look · To what, where: usual place
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 (keys, cupboard), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 safe | cc |
| 2 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 safe | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 no | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 keys | det |
| 5 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 safe | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | cop |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 safe | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cupboard | det |
| 15 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | conj |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 untouched | advmod |
| 18 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the keys | contents's usual place | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | the cupboard | untouched property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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