The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 119
In going thus from place to place, he entered a dark alley at the bottom of which was a closed door.
Who acts: farm, bottom · What happens: go, enter, close, be · To what, where: place, dark alley, bottom, closed door
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farm, bottom), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 going | mark |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 entered | advcl |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 going | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 going | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 going | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 alley | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 alley | amod |
| 13 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottom | det |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 door | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 door | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 21 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 door | amod |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bottom | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | farm not said here | place to place | thus property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | enter | past | farm | a dark alley | the bottom | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme alley=Destination | |||
| 3 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the bottom | a closed door | tree rules |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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