The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 36
“No doubt his Majesty has strolled into the forest,” and he opened the little door that led to it and they went through.
Who acts: king, little door, monkey · What happens: stroll, open, lead, go through · To what, where: doubt, forest, little door
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (king, little door, monkey), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 strolled | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 doubt | det |
| 3 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strolled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 doubt | appos |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 strolled | aux |
| 7 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strolled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 strolled | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 strolled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 opened | cc |
| 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 | 7 strolled | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 door | amod |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 door | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | conj |
| 26 | through | through | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no doubt | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | open | past | king | the little door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the little door | doubt | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go through | past | monkey | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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