The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 67
They went down, down, down, till at last they came to a passage with a door at one end, which was only fastened with a latch.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: go down, come, fasten · To what, where: last, one end
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 (sisters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 down | punct |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 down | punct |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 down | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 passage | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 passage | det |
| 16 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passage | nmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 end | nummod |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fastened | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fastened | aux:pass |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 fastened | advmod |
| 27 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 end | acl:relcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 latch | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 latch | det |
| 30 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fastened | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | sisters = sister | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | sisters = sister | last | at one end | to a passage with a door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to passage=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | fasten | past · passive | one end | with a latch | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with latch=Co-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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