The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 61
So he put back the box and locked the cabinet up again, and, having replaced the key in the crack in the wall, hastened down to the gallery.
Who acts: prince · What happens: put back, lock up, replace, hasten down · To what, where: box, cabinet, key, crack, wall, gallery
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 (prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 locked | cc |
| 8 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cabinet | det |
| 10 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 locked | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 locked | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 locked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replaced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 replaced | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 replaced | aux |
| 17 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 put | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 key | det |
| 19 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replaced | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 crack | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crack | det |
| 22 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replaced | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wall | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wall | det |
| 25 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crack | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hastened | punct |
| 27 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 wall | acl |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 hastened | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 gallery | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gallery | det |
| 31 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hastened | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | past | prince | the box | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal | ||||
| 2 | lock up | past | prince not said here | the cabinet | again | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabinet=Patient | |||
| 3 | replace | gerund · perfect | prince not said here | the key | the crack in the wall | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme key=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | hasten down | participle | the wall not said here | the gallery | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to gallery=Destination |
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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