The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 23
And he stooped down to unlock the box.
Who acts: king · What happens: stoop down, unlock · To what, where: box
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 stooped | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stooped | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 stooped | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 unlock | mark |
| 6 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stooped | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unlock | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | past | king | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unlock | to-infinitive | king not said here | the box | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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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