The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 30

It had no windows, so it was lighted with wax candles, and the only way into it was by an underground passage, which had iron doors only twenty feet apart, and guards were posted everywhere.

Who acts: tower, only way, underground passage · What happens: have, light, be, post · To what, where: windows, tower, iron doors, guards

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tower, only way, underground passage), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 windows	det
4	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lighted	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 lighted	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lighted	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lighted	aux:pass
9	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 candles	case
11	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 candles	compound
12	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lighted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 passage	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 passage	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passage	nsubj
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 passage	cop
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 passage	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 passage	det
23	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 passage	amod
24	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lighted	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 passage	acl:relcl
28	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 doors	compound
29	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 twenty	advmod
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 feet	nummod
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 apart	obl:unmarked
33	apart	apart	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 posted	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 posted	cc
36	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 posted	nsubj:pass
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 posted	aux:pass
38	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lighted	conj
39	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 posted	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	tower	no windows		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient
2	light	past · passive		tower	with wax candles	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with candle=Material
3	is	past	the only way into tower		by a underground passage	tree rules
4	have	past	a underground passage	iron doors	apart property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	post	past · passive		guards	everywhere property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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