The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 130
He would have left the castle at once, but stopped when Jack boldly walked up to a door in the wall and opened it.
Who acts: creature, Jack · What happens: leave, stop, walk up, open · To what, where: castle, wall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, Jack), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 left | aux |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 left | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | parataxis |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 walked | advmod |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 14 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 walked | advmod |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 walked | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 opened | cc |
| 24 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opened | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | would · perfect | creature | the castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent castle=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | walk up | past | Jack | the wall | to a door result; boldly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | |||
| 4 | open | past | castle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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