The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 20
Then he went to the part of the castle which was the nursery, and also killed all the poor little ones he found there.
Who acts: Rumour, castle · What happens: go, be, kill, find · To what, where: part, nursery, poor little ones
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rumour, castle), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 part | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 nursery | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nursery | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nursery | det |
| 13 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 killed | advmod |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 ones | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ones | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ones | amod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ones | amod |
| 22 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 killed | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ones | acl:relcl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 found | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Rumour | the part of the castle | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to part=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the castle | the nursery | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | Rumour not said here | all poor little ones | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Rumour | all poor little ones not said here | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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