The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 54
He soon came to the Etin’s castle, where he knocked, and was admitted.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, knock, admit · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Etin | det |
| 6 | Etin | Etin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Etin | case |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knocked | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 knocked | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knocked | nsubj |
| 12 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 castle | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 admitted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 admitted | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 admitted | aux:pass |
| 16 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | the Etin's castle | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | knock | past | man | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | past · passive | man not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» |
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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