Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 3

And there were twelve furnaces there and twelve doors, and these twelve doors needed no man to open or shut them, for they opened and shut themselves.

Who acts: twelve furnaces, twelve doors, furnaces · What happens: be, need, open, shut · To what, where: man, doors

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve furnaces, twelve doors, furnaces), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 were	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 furnaces	nummod
5	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 furnaces	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doors	cc
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 doors	nummod
9	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 furnaces	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 needed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 needed	cc
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 doors	det
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 doors	nummod
14	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 needed	nsubj
15	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needed	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 open	mark
19	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 man	acl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 shut	cc
21	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 open	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 shut	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 opened	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 opened	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 opened	nsubj
26	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shut	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shut	cc
28	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 opened	conj
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 shut	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	twelve furnaces and twelve doors		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	past	this twelve doors	no man		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
3	open	to-infinitive	this twelve doors not said here	no man not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shut	infinitive	this twelve doors not said here	doors = door		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	open	past	furnaces = furnace			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shut	past	furnaces = furnace not said here	doors = door		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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