The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 53
When Niels came to the gate of the castle, he found that there was a large door and a small one, so he opened the latter.
Who acts: Niels, large door · What happens: come, find, be, open · To what, where: gate, latter
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, large door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:2664): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gate | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 door | amod |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 opened | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 opened | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 opened | nsubj |
| 26 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 latter | det |
| 28 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 opened | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Niels | the gate of the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Niels | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | a large door and a small one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | Niels | the latter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location latter=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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