The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 62

He next asked the old woman to show him where the King’s daughters lay; and the old woman took him upstairs and opened a great many doors, and out of every door came a beautiful lady who had been imprisoned there by the Etin; and ane o’ the ladies was the King’s daughter.

Who acts: man, daughters, old woman, beautiful lady, Etin, ladies · What happens: ask, show, lay, take, open, come · To what, where: old woman, man, great many doors, door, beautiful lady, daughter

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, daughters, old woman, beautiful lady), 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 asked	nsubj
2	next	next	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 show	iobj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 lay	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 daughters	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 King	case
14	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 show	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	obj
23	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	21 took	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 opened	cc
25	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 doors	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 doors	amod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 doors	amod
29	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 opened	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 came	cc
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 door	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 lady	det
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 lady	amod
39	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	nsubj
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 imprisoned	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 imprisoned	aux:pass
43	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 lady	acl:relcl
44	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 imprisoned	advmod
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 Etin	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Etin	det
47	Etin	Etin	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 imprisoned	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 ane	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 ane	cc
50	ane	ane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	parataxis
51	o	o	ADV	_	50 ane	advmod
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 ane	punct
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ladies	det
54	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 daughter	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 daughter	cop
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 King	det
57	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 daughter	nmod:poss
58	’s	's	PART	_	57 King	case
59	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	parataxis
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man		the old woman		next property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	lay	present	the King's daughters					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take	past	the old woman		man		upstairs property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	open	past	the old woman not said here	a great many doors				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
6	come	past	a beautiful lady			every door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out door=Initial_Location
7	imprison	past · perfect · passive	the Etin	a beautiful lady		there		vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
8	is a	past	the ladies	the King's daughter				tree rules

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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