The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 224

Then they warned her once more to be on her guard, and to open the door to no one.

Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: warn, be, open · To what, where: SNOWDROP, guard, door, one

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs), 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 warned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warned	nsubj
3	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warned	obj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 warned	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	11 guard	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 guard	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 guard	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 guard	nmod:poss
11	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warned	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 open	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 open	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 open	mark
15	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 warned	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 open	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 one	case
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 open	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	dwarfs = dwarf		SNOWDROP		then	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here			SNOWDROP's guard		tree rules
3	open	to-infinitive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	the door	no one			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to one=Recipient

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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