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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

advmodpunctadvclcaseoblpunctnsubjpunctccconjdetamodobjpunctccdetnsubjpunctnsubjnsubjconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootHoweverADV,PUNCTthrustingVERBagainstADPitPRON,PUNCTitPRONopenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJdiscoveredVERBanDETeasyADJdescentNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJnoDETstepsNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONhePRONwalkedVERBdownADVwithADPhisPRONarrowNOUNinADPhisPRONhandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoweverhoweverADV_8 openedadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Howeverpunct
3thrustingthrustVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 openedadvcl
4againstagainstADP_5 itcase
5ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 thrustingobl
6,,PUNCT_3 thrustingpunct
7ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 openednsubj
8openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9,,PUNCT_11 discoveredpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 discoveredcc
11discovereddiscoverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 openedconj
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 descentdet
13easyeasyADJDegree=Pos14 descentamod
14descentdescentNOUNNumber=Sing11 discoveredobj
15,,PUNCT_22 walkedpunct
16butbutCCONJ_22 walkedcc
17nonoDETPronType=Neg18 stepsdet
18stepsstepNOUNNumber=Plur22 walkednsubj
19,,PUNCT_22 walkedpunct
20whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 walkednsubj
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 walkednsubj
22walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 openedconj
23downdownADV_22 walkedadvmod
24withwithADP_26 arrowcase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 arrownmod:poss
26arrowarrowNOUNNumber=Sing22 walkedobl
27ininADP_29 handcase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 handnmod:poss
29handhandNOUNNumber=Sing26 arrownmod
30..PUNCT_8 openedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1thrustgerundlock not said hereagainst lockvn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against it=Theme
2openpastlockhowever propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3discoverpastlock not said herea easy descentvn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descent=Topic
4walk downpastno stepswith Prince's arrow in Prince's hand; down propertyvn 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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