The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 20
He was determined to see, and went through the door into the fourth room.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, see, go · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | cop |
| 3 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 determined | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Prince not said here | the door | into the fourth room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location into room=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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