The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 6

Fifty doors flew open before him, and at length he reached a long flight of steps which seemed to lead into the bowels of the earth.

Who acts: Fifty doors, idiot, steps · What happens: fly, reach, seem, lead · To what, where: long flight, length, bowels

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fifty doors, idiot, steps), 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	Fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 doors	nummod
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flew	xcomp
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reached	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reached	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reached	nsubj
12	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flight	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flight	amod
15	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reached	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 steps	case
17	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flight	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 steps	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lead	mark
21	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seemed	xcomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 bowels	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bowels	det
24	bowels	bowel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lead	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 earth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 earth	det
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bowels	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Fifty doors			before idiot	open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
2	reach	past	idiot	a long flight of steps	length			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent flight=Theme at length=Asset
3	seem	past	steps					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	lead	to-infinitive	steps not said here		the bowels of the earth			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into bowel=Destination

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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