Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 32

The door flew open at the third stroke of the wand, and when the lions were quieted he went on through the castle and came at length to a beautiful hall.

Who acts: door · What happens: fly, quiet, go on, come, stroke · To what, where: third stroke, lions, castle, length, wand

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flew	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 stroke	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stroke	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 stroke	amod
8	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 wand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wand	det
11	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stroke	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quieted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 quieted	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 quieted	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lions	det
16	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 quieted	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 quieted	aux:pass
18	quieted	quiet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 flew	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 castle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 length	case
28	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 hall	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hall	det
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hall	amod
32	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the door		the third stroke of the wand	open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stroke=Location
2	quiet	past · passive		the lions			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	go on	past	door		the castle		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through castle=Location
4	come	past	door not said here		length	to a beautiful hall	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location
5	stroke			the wand			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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: «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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