The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 101

Then she silently left the room, and next morning when the nurse asked the sentries if they had seen any one go into the castle that night, they all said, ‘No, we saw no one at all.’

Who acts: nurse, sentries, one, we · What happens: leave, ask, see, go, say · To what, where: room, sentries, one, castle, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, sentries, one, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 left	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
3	silently	silently	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 morning	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 morning	cc
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 asked	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nurse	det
13	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sentries	det
16	sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 asked	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 seen	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 asked	advcl
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seen	xcomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 castle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 castle	det
26	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 castle	nmod:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 said	advmod
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
35	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	38 saw	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 No	punct
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 saw	nsubj
38	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 said	ccomp
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 one	det
40	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saw	obj
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 all	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 one	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	nurse	the room		then; morning	silently property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the nurse	the sentries				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sentry=Recipient
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	sentries = sentry	any one				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	any one not said here		the castle that night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	sentries = sentry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see	past	we	no one	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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