The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 63
But no! all was as it had been before, and as he opened the castle door there stood within the most beautiful maiden that ever was seen.
Who acts: bundle, son · What happens: be, open, stand, see · To what, where: castle door, beautiful maiden
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 (bundle, son), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 all | cc |
| 2 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 all | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 no | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 before | cop |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 before | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 before | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 before | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 before | cop |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 all | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 opened | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stood | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | compound |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 opened | advmod |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 before | conj |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 25 maiden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maiden | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 maiden | amod |
| 25 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 seen | advmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 seen | aux:pass |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | bundle | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | son | the castle door | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | past | bundle not said here | within the beautiful maiden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past · passive | the beautiful maiden | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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