The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 194

Then they all went through the three woods, and when they had passed the door of the underground passage a great noise was heard, as if the enchanted castle was crumbling to the earth.

Who acts: boats, enchanted castle · What happens: go, pass, hear, enchant, crumble · To what, where: three woods, door, great noise

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boats, enchanted castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:148): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 woods	nummod
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 passed	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 passed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	aux
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 heard	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 passage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
19	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 passage	amod
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	nmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 noise	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 noise	amod
23	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	aux:pass
25	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 crumbling	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 crumbling	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 crumbling	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 castle	det
30	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 castle	amod
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crumbling	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 crumbling	aux
33	crumbling	crumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 heard	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 earth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crumbling	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	boats = boat		the three woods	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
2	pass	past · perfect	boats = boat	the door of the underground passage				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory
3	hear	past · passive		a great noise				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	enchant	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	crumble	past · progressive	the enchanted castle				to the earth result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to earth=Result

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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