The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 61
And she opened a huge wardrobe which stood in the great hall, and shut him into it.
Who acts: giantess, huge wardrobe · What happens: open, stand, shut · To what, where: huge wardrobe, great hall, boy, wardrobe
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 (giantess, huge wardrobe), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 opened | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wardrobe | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wardrobe | amod |
| 6 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wardrobe | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hall | amod |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shut | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shut | cc |
| 15 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shut | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shut | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | giantess | a huge wardrobe | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wardrobe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a huge wardrobe | the great hall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | ||||
| 3 | shut | past | giantess not said here | boy | wardrobe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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