The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 42
However, thrusting against it, it opened, and discovered an easy descent, but no steps, which he walked down with his arrow in his hand.
Who acts: lock, steps · What happens: thrust, open, discover, walk down · To what, where: easy descent
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 (lock, steps), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 opened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 opened | advcl |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrusting | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrusting | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 discovered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 discovered | cc |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 descent | det |
| 13 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 descent | amod |
| 14 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 walked | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 steps | det |
| 18 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 walked | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 arrow | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 26 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walked | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arrow | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | gerund | lock not said here | against lock | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | lock | however property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | lock not said here | a easy descent | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descent=Topic | ||||
| 4 | walk down | past | no steps | with Prince's arrow in Prince's hand; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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