The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 22
She then took the little key, and opened it, trembling, but could not at first see anything plainly, because the windows were shut.
Who acts: manner, windows · What happens: take, open, tremble, not see, be · To what, where: little key, stop, anything
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, windows), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 key | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 key | amod |
| 6 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opened | cc |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembling | punct |
| 12 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 opened | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 first | case |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 19 see | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shut | punct |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 shut | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 windows | det |
| 25 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shut | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shut | cop |
| 27 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | manner | the little key | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past | manner not said here | stop | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | manner not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not see | could | manner not said here | anything | first, plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | past | the windows | shut 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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