The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 49

At first he could not see any keyhole, but after a careful search he found one hidden in the carving, and the golden key just fitted it; so the Prince gave it a vigorous turn and the doors flew open.

Who acts: noise, golden key, Prince, doors · What happens: not see, find, hide, fit, give, fly · To what, where: keyhole, one, key

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (noise, golden key, Prince, doors), 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	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 see	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 keyhole	det
8	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 search	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 search	det
13	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 search	amod
14	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 found	obj
18	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 one	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 carving	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 carving	det
21	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hidden	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fitted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fitted	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 key	det
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 key	amod
26	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fitted	nsubj
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 fitted	advmod
28	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fitted	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	34 gave	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Prince	det
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 gave	nsubj
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gave	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 turn	det
37	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 turn	amod
38	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flew	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 doors	det
41	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 flew	nsubj
42	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gave	conj
43	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 flew	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	noise	any keyhole			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer keyhole=Stimulus
2	find	past	noise	one	after a careful search		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	hide	participle				in the carving	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in carving=Location
4	fit	past	the golden key	keyhole			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	give	past	the Prince	key			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient turn=Theme
6	fly	past	the doors			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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