The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 90

‘The flower that laughs opens all doors and lightens all darkness,’ said the lady; and as she spoke, they reached the further bank, and advanced towards the castle.

Who acts: flower, lady, doors · What happens: laugh, open, lighten, say, speak, reach · To what, where: doors, darkness, further bank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, lady, doors), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 opens	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flower	det
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opens	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 laughs	nsubj
5	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 flower	acl:relcl
6	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 doors	det
8	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 opens	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lightens	cc
10	lightens	lighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 opens	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 darkness	det
12	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lightens	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opens	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lady	det
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 reached	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 reached	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 spoke	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spoke	nsubj
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reached	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reached	nsubj
25	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 opens	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bank	det
27	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bank	amod
28	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reached	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 advanced	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 advanced	cc
31	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reached	parataxis
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 castle	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 castle	det
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 advanced	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 opens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	laugh	present	the flower		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	open	present	the flower	all doors	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	lighten	present	the flower not said here	all darkness	vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent darkness=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the lady		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	past	lady		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	reach	past	doors = door	the further bank	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme

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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