The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 73
The gate was opened, and presently entered two horsemen, who, drawing their swords, ran directly to Blue Beard.
Who acts: two horsemen · What happens: open, enter, draw, run · To what, where: gate, two horsemen, swords, Blue 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 (two horsemen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gate | det |
| 2 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 entered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 entered | cc |
| 7 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 8 entered | advmod |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | advcl |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horsemen | nummod |
| 10 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 entered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drawing | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 drawing | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drawing | punct |
| 14 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 horsemen | acl |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 swords | nmod:poss |
| 16 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drawing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 entered | conj |
| 19 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Beard | case |
| 21 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Beard | amod |
| 22 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | two horsemen | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horseman=Destination | ||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | two horsemen | horsemen's swords | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Blue Beard | directly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beard=Result |
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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