The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 77

At the end of two hours they stopped in front of a large castle, big and black and gloomy, whose doors stood wide open, although neither sound nor light gave sign of any presence within.

Who acts: signs, doors, sound · What happens: stop, stand, give, sign · To what, where: end, sign, presence

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (signs, doors, sound), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hours	nummod
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 castle	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 castle	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 castle	amod
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 front	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 big	punct
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 castle	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 black	cc
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 big	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gloomy	cc
20	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 big	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 doors	nmod:poss
23	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 big	conj
25	wide	wide	ADV	_	26 open	advmod
26	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stood	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
28	although	although	SCONJ	_	33 gave	mark
29	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	30 sound	det
30	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	nsubj
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 light	cc
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sound	conj
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stood	conj
34	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 presence	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 presence	det
37	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sign	nmod
38	within	within	ADP	_	33 gave	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	signs = sign		at the end of two hours	in front of a large castle	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	stand	past	doors			open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	neither sound nor light	sign of any presence			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
4	sign			any presence			nom sign «communication 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: «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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