The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 73
As soon as the door let go its hold of him, off went the attorney.
Who acts: door · What happens: let, go, hold · To what, where: hold, attorney
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 let | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | obl |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | off | off | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 attorney | det |
| 16 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | as the door; soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | door's hold of attorney | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the attorney | off property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location attorney=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | door | attorney | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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