The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 84
At their approach the mountain had opened a little, and the bagpiper had gone in with them, after which it had closed again.
Who acts: bagpiper, mountain, boys · What happens: open, go in, close, approach · To what, where: mountain, approach
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bagpiper, mountain, boys), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 approach | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 approach | nmod:poss |
| 3 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | aux |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 opened | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gone | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bagpiper | det |
| 13 | bagpiper | bagpiper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | aux |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 opened | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 gone | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 closed | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 closed | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 closed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 closed | aux |
| 24 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 gone | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 closed | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · perfect · passive | the mountain | boys's approach | a little obl:unmarked | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at approach=Location | |||
| 2 | go in | past · perfect | the bagpiper | with boys = boy | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | close | past · perfect | mountain | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | approach | boys = boy | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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