The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 9
A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he followed them, and the door shut again of itself.
Who acts: rocks, troop, Ali · What happens: open, make, go in, follow · To what, where: door, rocks, troop
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 (rocks, troop, Ali), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 door | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 rocks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rocks | det |
| 6 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 troop | det |
| 12 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 door | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shut | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shut | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 followed | advcl |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 shut | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 itself | case |
| 26 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 shut | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | participle | a door not said here | the rocks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rock=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund · perfect | the rocks not said here | the troop | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in | infinitive | the troop not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | Ali | a door | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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