The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 40
However, all went well—he neither saw nor heard anything alarming; the only thing that happened was that the great iron-barred door shut with a crash as soon as he was fairly outside it, and then he remembered that he had left the magic root behind him, so he could not go back for another load of treasure.
Who acts: Peter, only thing · What happens: go, see, hear, happen, bar, be · To what, where: anything, magic root
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, only thing), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 heard | cc |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | alarming | alarming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 anything | amod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 shut | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shut | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 shut | cop |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 shut | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 door | amod |
| 24 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 barred | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 iron | punct |
| 26 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 door | amod |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 crash | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 crash | det |
| 31 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shut | obl |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 soon | advmod |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 it | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 it | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 it | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 it | cop |
| 37 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 39 it | advmod |
| 38 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 remembered | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 remembered | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 remembered | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 remembered | nsubj |
| 44 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 left | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 left | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 left | aux |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 remembered | advcl |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 root | det |
| 50 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 root | amod |
| 51 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 left | obj |
| 52 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 53 him | case |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 root | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 go | punct |
| 55 | so | so | ADV | _ | 59 go | advmod |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 go | nsubj |
| 57 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 go | aux |
| 58 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 59 go | advmod |
| 59 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 remembered | conj |
| 60 | back | back | ADV | _ | 59 go | advmod |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 63 load | case |
| 62 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 63 load | det |
| 63 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 go | obl |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 treasure | case |
| 65 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 load | nmod |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | however, well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Peter | neither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Peter not said here | anything | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | the only thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bar | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | the only thing | with a crash; the great barred door obl:unmarked; shut property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Peter | outside thing; fairly, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | remember | past | Peter | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | leave | past · perfect | Peter | the magic root | behind light | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent root=Theme behind he=Location | |||
| 10 | not go back | could | Peter | for another load of treasure | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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