The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 110
On he walked, across fields and lawn, and no one was there to keep him out or let him into the castle; but the big hall-door was wide open.
Who acts: youngest, one, big hall door · What happens: walk, be, keep out, let · To what, where: fields, youngest, castle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, one, big hall door), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fields | punct |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 fields | case |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lawn | cc |
| 8 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fields | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 there | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 there | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 walked | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 there | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 keep | compound:prt |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 keep | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 open | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 open | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 door | det |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 door | amod |
| 29 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 door | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 hall | punct |
| 31 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 open | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 open | cop |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 open | advmod |
| 34 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walked | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | youngest = young | fields and lawn | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | no one | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep out | to-infinitive | no one not said here | youngest = young | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | no one not said here | youngest = young | the castle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | the big hall door | open property | tree rules |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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