The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 45
He found the palace doors wide open and went boldly into a sort of hall which was full of people, and where men and maids were gossiping together.
Who acts: boy, hall, men · What happens: find, go, be, gossip, sort · To what, where: palace doors, sort, hall
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hall, men), 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 | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doors | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doors | compound |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doors | amod |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 10 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 sort | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sort | det |
| 13 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sort | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 full | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hall | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gossiping | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gossiping | cc |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 gossiping | advmod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gossiping | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 maids | cc |
| 26 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 men | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gossiping | aux |
| 28 | gossiping | gossip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 gossiping | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | boy | the palace doors | open property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | past | boy not said here | a sort of hall | boldly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sort=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | hall | of people; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gossip speech: other | past · progressive | men and maids | together property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sort | hall | nom sort «cognition 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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