The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 34
After several goings backward and forward she was forced to bring him the key.
Who acts: Fail · What happens: force, bring · To what, where: Fail, key, beard
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 (Fail), 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 | _ | 4 backward | mark |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goings | amod |
| 3 | goings | going | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 backward | nsubj |
| 4 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 9 forced | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 forward | cc |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 backward | conj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forced | aux:pass |
| 9 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forced | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 key | det |
| 14 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | Fail | backward property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | Fail not said here | the key | beard | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination key=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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