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The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 25

With his hand on his sword, to be prepared for whatever might happen, he entered a hall paved with lapis-lazuli, while two lovely voices sang:

Who acts: two, whatever, two lovely voices · What happens: be, happen, enter, pave, sing · To what, where: hall

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (two, whatever, two lovely voices), 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

casenmod:possoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctmarkcopacl:relclmarknsubjauxadvclpunctnsubjdetobjaclcasecompoundpunctoblpunctmarknummodamodnsubjconjpunctrootWithADPhisPRONhandNOUNonADPhisPRONswordNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTbeAUXpreparedADJforSCONJwhateverPRONmightAUXhappenVERB,PUNCThePRONenteredVERBaDEThallNOUNpavedVERBwithADPlapisNOUN-PUNCTlazuliNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJtwoNUMlovelyADJvoicesNOUNsangVERB:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WithwithADP_3 handcase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 handnmod:poss
3handhandNOUNNumber=Sing17 enteredobl
4ononADP_6 swordcase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 swordnmod:poss
6swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing3 handnmod
7,,PUNCT_10 preparedpunct
8totoPART_10 preparedmark
9bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf10 preparedcop
10preparedpreparedADJDegree=Pos6 swordacl:relcl
11forforSCONJ_14 happenmark
12whateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel14 happennsubj
13mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin14 happenaux
14happenhappenVERBVerbForm=Inf10 preparedadvcl
15,,PUNCT_3 handpunct
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 enterednsubj
17enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 halldet
19hallhallNOUNNumber=Sing17 enteredobj
20pavedpaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 hallacl
21withwithADP_24 lazulicase
22lapislapisNOUNNumber=Sing24 lazulicompound
23--PUNCT_22 lapispunct
24lazulilazuliNOUNNumber=Sing20 pavedobl
25,,PUNCT_30 sangpunct
26whilewhileSCONJ_30 sangmark
27twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card29 voicesnummod
28lovelylovelyADJDegree=Pos29 voicesamod
29voicesvoiceNOUNNumber=Plur30 sangnsubj
30sangsingVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 enteredconj
31::PUNCT_17 enteredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1isto-infinitivetwo not said hereprepared propertytree rules
2happenmightwhatevervn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3enterpasttwoa hallwith two's hand on two's swordvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
4paveparticiplea hall not said herewith lapis lazulivn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lazuli=Theme
5sing speech: expresspasttwo lovely voicesvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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