The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 67
After that there was nothing to do but to shut him in the cage.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, do, shut · To what, where: king, cage
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 was | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 was | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nothing | acl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 shut | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shut | mark |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 do | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shut | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cage | det |
| 14 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | after that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shut | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | king | the cage | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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