The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 31
Many gate-keepers were on guard, and there was no chance of passing them.
Who acts: Many gate keepers, chance · What happens: be, pass · To what, where: guard, chance, keepers
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many gate keepers, chance), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keepers | amod |
| 2 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keepers | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gate | punct |
| 4 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 chance | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 guard | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 guard | case |
| 7 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keepers | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chance | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 chance | det |
| 13 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 passing | mark |
| 15 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 chance | acl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 passing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 chance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Many gate keepers and guard not said here | guard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Many gate keepers and guard | no chance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | gerund | no chance not said here | keepers = keeper | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
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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