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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 65

As the door was open he walked in, but a lovely maiden met him and implored him to go back, for the owner of the castle was a dragon with six heads, who had stolen her from her home and brought her down to this underground spot.

Who acts: door, fellow, lovely maiden, owner, six heads · What happens: be, walk in, meet, implore, go back, steal · To what, where: fellow, dragon, maiden, home, underground spot

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, fellow, lovely maiden, owner), 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

markdetnsubjcopnsubjccompadvmodpunctccdetamodnsubjparataxisobjccconjobjmarkxcompadvmodpunctcasedetnsubjcasedetnmodcopdetparataxiscasenummodoblpunctnsubjauxaclobjcasenmod:possoblccconjobjcompound:prtcasedetamodoblpunctrootAsSCONJtheDETdoorNOUNwasAUXopenADJhePRONwalkedVERBinADV,PUNCTbutCCONJaDETlovelyADJmaidenNOUNmetVERBhimPRONandCCONJimploredVERBhimPRONtoPARTgoVERBbackADV,PUNCTforADPtheDETownerNOUNofADPtheDETcastleNOUNwasAUXaDETdragonNOUNwithADPsixNUMheadsNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXstolenVERBherPRONfromADPherPRONhomeNOUNandCCONJbroughtVERBherPRONdownADPtoADPthisDETundergroundADJspotNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_5 openmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 doordet
3doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing5 opennsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 opencop
5openopenADJDegree=Posrootroot
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 walkednsubj
7walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 openccomp
8ininADV_7 walkedadvmod
9,,PUNCT_14 metpunct
10butbutCCONJ_14 metcc
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 maidendet
12lovelylovelyADJDegree=Pos13 maidenamod
13maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing14 metnsubj
14metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 openparataxis
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 metobj
16andandCCONJ_17 imploredcc
17imploredimploreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 metconj
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 imploredobj
19totoPART_20 gomark
20gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf17 imploredxcomp
21backbackADV_20 goadvmod
22,,PUNCT_25 ownerpunct
23forforADP_25 ownercase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 ownerdet
25ownerownerNOUNNumber=Sing31 dragonnsubj
26ofofADP_28 castlecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 castledet
28castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing25 ownernmod
29wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 dragoncop
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 dragondet
31dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing20 goparataxis
32withwithADP_34 headscase
33sixsixNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card34 headsnummod
34headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur20 goobl
35,,PUNCT_38 stolenpunct
36whowhoPRONPronType=Rel38 stolennsubj
37hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 stolenaux
38stolenstealVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part34 headsacl
39hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 stolenobj
40fromfromADP_42 homecase
41herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 homenmod:poss
42homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing38 stolenobl
43andandCCONJ_44 broughtcc
44broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 stolenconj
45hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 broughtobj
46downdownADP_44 broughtcompound:prt
47totoADP_50 spotcase
48thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem50 spotdet
49undergroundundergroundADJDegree=Pos50 spotamod
50spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing44 broughtobl
51..PUNCT_5 openpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe dooropen propertytree rules
2walk inpastfellowvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3meetpasta lovely maidenfellowvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4implorepasta lovely maiden not said herefellowvn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5go backto-infinitivea lovely maiden not said herewith six headsvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6is apastthe owner of the castlea dragontree rules
7stealpast · perfectsix headsmaidenmaiden's homevn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from home=Source
8bring downpastsix heads not said heremaidenthis underground spotvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to spot=Destination

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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