Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 5

Through all twelve doors he went, and came out again at the first door, and looked about him, and--there were no dogs to be seen.

Who acts: man, dogs · What happens: go, come out, look, be, see · To what, where: twelve doors, first door

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 (man, dogs), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	4 doors	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 doors	det
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 doors	nummod
4	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 were	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 were	cc
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 were	expl
25	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 dogs	det
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 were	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 seen	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 seen	aux:pass
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 dogs	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	man	all twelve doors			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location
2	come out	past	man not said here	the first door	again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	look	past	man not said here			about man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
4	be	past	no dogs	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive · passive	no dogs not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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