The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 7
Down these he went till he came to a silver door without a bar or key.
Who acts: these, idiot · What happens: go, come · To what, where: silver door
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 (these, idiot), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 10 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 door | amod |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 bar | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bar | det |
| 14 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 key | cc |
| 16 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bar | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | these | down property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | idiot | a silver door | without a bar or key | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location |
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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