The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 39
At last they locked it in a cupboard in one corner of their room, and as there was no hole anywhere the ball could not possibly get out.
Who acts: girls, ball · What happens: lock, be, not get out · To what, where: bedtime, last, hole
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, ball), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 locked | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | nsubj |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cupboard | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cupboard | det |
| 8 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 corner | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 corner | nummod |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 corner | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hole | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hole | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hole | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 hole | det |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | parataxis |
| 22 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 hole | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ball | det |
| 24 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 get | advmod |
| 27 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 28 get | advmod |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hole | parataxis |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 get | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | girls = girl | bedtime | last | in a cupboard; in one corner of girls's room | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 2 | is a | past | no hole | anywhere property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not get out | could | the ball | out, possibly property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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