The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 74
Then he took out his bottle and oiled the hinges, when the gate opened of itself, and he saw an old castle standing inside.
Who acts: Désiré, gate, old castle · What happens: take out, oil, open, see, stand · To what, where: bottle, hinges, old castle
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Désiré, gate, old castle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 oiled | cc |
| 8 | oiled | oil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hinges | det |
| 10 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 oiled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 opened | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gate | det |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 itself | case |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 opened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 castle | amod |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 castle | acl |
| 26 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 25 standing | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | Désiré | Désiré's bottle | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | |||
| 2 | oil | past | Désiré not said here | the hinges | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hinge=Destination | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the gate | of gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Désiré | a old castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | a old castle not said here | inside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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