The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 26
After having somewhat recovered her surprise, she took up the key, locked the door, and went upstairs into her chamber to recover herself; but she could not, she was so much frightened.
Who acts: floor · What happens: have, recover, take up, lock, go, frighten · To what, where: surprise, key, door, chamber, floor
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 (floor), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 having | mark |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 3 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 4 recovered | advmod |
| 4 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 having | ccomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recovered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 key | det |
| 12 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 locked | punct |
| 14 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 locked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 locked | conj |
| 20 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 chamber | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 recover | mark |
| 25 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | advcl |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 recover | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 frightened | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 could | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 could | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 frightened | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 could | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 could | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 frightened | aux:pass |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADV | _ | 37 frightened | advmod |
| 37 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | floor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | recover | past | floor not said here | floor's surprise | somewhat property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Theme | |||
| 3 | take up | past | floor | the key | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lock | past | floor not said here | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | floor not said here | floor's chamber | upstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | recover | to-infinitive | floor not said here | floor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 7 | frighten | could · passive | floor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | surprise | floor | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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