The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 76

But when he reached the room in which Celia had been locked up, he was greatly surprised to find that she was not in it, though he had the key in his own pocket all the time.

Who acts: brother, Celia · What happens: reach, lock up, be, find, not be, have · To what, where: room, Celia, key, own pocket

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Celia), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 surprised	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 surprised	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 locked	obl
9	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 locked	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 locked	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 locked	aux:pass
12	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 room	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 locked	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 surprised	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 surprised	cop
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	18 surprised	advmod
18	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 surprised	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 it	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 it	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 it	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 it	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 surprised	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 key	det
32	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 pocket	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 pocket	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pocket	amod
36	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 key	nmod
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 time	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	brother	the room				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme
2	lock up	past · perfect · passive		Celia	the room			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	past	brother				greatly, surprised property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	brother not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not is	past	Celia		room			tree rules
6	have	past	brother	the key	brother's own pocket	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient

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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