The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 18
Then the White Bear knocked on it, and a door opened, and they went into a castle where there were many brilliantly lighted rooms which shone with gold and silver, likewise a large hall in which there was a well-spread table, and it was so magnificent that it would be hard to make anyone understand how splendid it was.
Who acts: White Bear, door, bounds, many lighted rooms, table, anyone · What happens: knock, open, go, light, shine, spread · To what, where: mountain, castle, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Bear, door, bounds, many lighted rooms), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 knocked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 3 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bear | amod |
| 4 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knocked | nsubj |
| 5 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knocked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocked | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocked | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 were | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 were | expl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 castle | acl:relcl |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rooms | amod |
| 24 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 25 lighted | advmod |
| 25 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 rooms | amod |
| 26 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 were | nsubj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 shone | nsubj |
| 28 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rooms | acl:relcl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 gold | case |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shone | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 silver | cc |
| 32 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gold | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hall | punct |
| 34 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 37 hall | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hall | det |
| 36 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hall | amod |
| 37 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gold | appos |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 was | obl |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 was | expl |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 hall | acl:relcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 table | det |
| 43 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 spread | advmod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 well | punct |
| 45 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 table | amod |
| 46 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 was | nsubj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 magnificent | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 magnificent | cc |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 magnificent | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 magnificent | cop |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 magnificent | advmod |
| 52 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knocked | parataxis |
| 53 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 hard | mark |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 hard | expl |
| 55 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 hard | aux |
| 56 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 57 hard | cop |
| 57 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 magnificent | conj |
| 58 | to | to | PART | _ | 59 make | mark |
| 59 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 hard | csubj |
| 60 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 59 make | obj |
| 61 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 make | xcomp |
| 62 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 63 splendid | advmod |
| 63 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 understand | ccomp |
| 64 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 splendid | nsubj |
| 65 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 63 splendid | cop |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | the White Bear | mountain | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | |||
| 2 | open | past | a door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | bounds = bound | a castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | light | participle | brilliantly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shine | past | many lighted rooms | with gold and silver | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme | ||||
| 6 | spread | participle | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | table | magnificent property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | would | table not said here | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | make | to-infinitive | anyone | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | understand | infinitive | anyone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 11 | is | past | table | splendid property | tree rules |
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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