The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 41
As these rocks were full of caves and some of those caves were deep, the Prince entered into one, and, looking about, cast his eyes on an iron door, which seemed to have no lock, but he feared it was fastened.
Who acts: some, Prince, iron door · What happens: be, enter, look, cast, seem, have · To what, where: eyes, iron door, lock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, Prince, iron door), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 rocks | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 rocks | det |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 caves | case |
| 7 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 deep | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 deep | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 caves | case |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 caves | det |
| 12 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 deep | cop |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 full | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 entered | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | nsubj |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 entered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looking | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looking | punct |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 entered | advcl |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 looking | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cast | punct |
| 27 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 looking | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 cast | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 door | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 door | det |
| 32 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 door | amod |
| 33 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cast | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seemed | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 seemed | nsubj |
| 36 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 door | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 seemed | xcomp |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 lock | det |
| 40 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 feared | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 feared | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 feared | nsubj |
| 44 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 fastened | aux:pass |
| 47 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 feared | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | as this rocks; of caves; full property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | some | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the Prince | into one | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the Prince not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cast | infinitive | the Prince not said here | Prince's eyes | a iron door | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on door=Destination | |||
| 6 | seem | past | a iron door | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | a iron door not said here | no lock | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient | ||||
| 8 | fear | past | Prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | fasten | past · passive | lock | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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