The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 22
When the people outside found that the door was not opened to them, they took crowbars and forced the portal.
Who acts: people · What happens: find, not open, take, force · To what, where: door, people, crowbars, portal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 people | advmod |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 opened | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 opened | advmod |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 found | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 opened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | crowbars | crowbar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forced | cc |
| 19 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 portal | det |
| 21 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forced | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the people | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not open | past · passive | the door | people | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | people | crowbars | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowbar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | force | past | people not said here | the portal | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portal=Recipient |
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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