Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 12

Then they went through all the rooms, till they came to a door on which were three locks: but in the middle of the door was a wicket, so that they could look into the next room.

Who acts: brother · What happens: go, come, be, look · To what, where: rooms, door, three locks, wicket, middle

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 rooms	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rooms	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rooms	det
7	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 locks	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 locks	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 locks	cop
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 locks	nummod
19	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 wicket	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 wicket	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wicket	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 middle	nmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wicket	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wicket	det
30	wicket	wicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 look	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 look	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 look	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 look	aux
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
37	into	into	ADP	_	40 room	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 room	det
39	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 room	amod
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 look	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	brother		all rooms	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through room=Initial_Location
2	come	past	brother		a door			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	is	past			three locks			tree rules
4	is a	past		a wicket	the middle of the door			tree rules
5	look	could	brother				into the next room	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into room=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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