The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 36

Then she took the girl and opened the locked-up room; she showed her the twelve coffins filled with shavings, and with the little pillow laid in each.

Who acts: Heaven · What happens: take, open, lock, show, fill, lay · To what, where: girl, locked up room, twelve coffins, each

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven), 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 opened	cc
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
9	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 room	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 locked	punct
11	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	compound
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 showed	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	nsubj
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coffins	det
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 coffins	nummod
19	coffins	coffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 showed	obj
20	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 coffins	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 shavings	case
22	shavings	shaving	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 filled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laid	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 laid	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 pillow	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pillow	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pillow	amod
28	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laid	obl
29	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 laid	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Heaven		the girl		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination
2	open	past	Heaven not said here	the locked up room					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme
3	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	show	past	Heaven	the twelve coffins	girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient coffin=Topic
5	fill	participle		the twelve coffins not said here				with shavings	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shaving=Instrument
6	lay	participle	Heaven not said here			each		with the little pillow	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in each=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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