The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 17

The mother said: “Rose-red, open the door quickly; it must be some traveler seeking shelter.”

Who acts: mother, door, traveler · What happens: say, open, be, seek · To what, where: door, traveler, shelter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, door, traveler), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 open	punct
6	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 red	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Rose	punct
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 open	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 open	obj
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 open	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 traveler	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 traveler	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 traveler	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 traveler	cop
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 traveler	det
19	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
20	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 traveler	acl
21	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seeking	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 traveler	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 traveler	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	open in a quote	infinitive		the door	quickly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	is a in a quote	must	door	some traveler		tree rules
4	seek in a quote	gerund	some traveler not said here	shelter		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=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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