The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 112
He then forced the lock of a door leading into a garden, and climbing over several walls made his escape.
Who acts: captain, climbing · What happens: force, lead, climb, make, escape · To what, where: lock, garden, several walls, escape
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, climbing), 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 forced | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 forced | advmod |
| 3 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lock | det |
| 5 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forced | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lock | nmod |
| 9 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 forced | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leading | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 15 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 made | csubj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 walls | amod |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 climbing | obl |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forced | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 escape | nmod:poss |
| 21 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past | captain | the lock of a door | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | captain not said here | a garden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into garden=Destination | ||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | several walls | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | make | past | climbing | captain's escape | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product | ||||
| 5 | escape | captain | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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