The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 78

When they got to the trunk, the eldest foal broke it down on one side, and then they saw a door where the trunk had been standing, and inside this there was a small room, and in the room there was scarcely anything but a small fire-place and a couple of benches, but behind the door hung a great rusty sword and a small pitcher.

Who acts: foals, eldest foal, trunk, this · What happens: get, break down, see, stand, be, hang · To what, where: trunk, one side, door, small room, great rusty sword

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foals, eldest foal, trunk, this), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 broke	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 trunk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trunk	det
6	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 foal	det
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 foal	amod
10	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	nsubj
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broke	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 broke	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 side	nummod
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 saw	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 broke	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 standing	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trunk	det
26	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 standing	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 standing	aux
29	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 door	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 room	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 room	cc
32	inside	inside	ADP	_	33 this	case
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 room	nsubj
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 room	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 room	det
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 room	amod
38	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 room	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 room	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 room	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 room	det
43	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obl
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 was	expl
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 room	acl:relcl
46	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 anything	amod
47	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	45 was	nsubj
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 place	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 place	det
50	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 place	amod
51	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 place	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 fire	punct
53	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 anything	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 couple	cc
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 couple	det
56	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 anything	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 benches	case
58	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 couple	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 hung	punct
60	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 hung	cc
61	behind	behind	ADP	_	63 door	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 door	det
63	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 hung	obl
64	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 was	parataxis
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 sword	det
66	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 sword	amod
67	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 sword	amod
68	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 hung	obj
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 pitcher	cc
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 pitcher	det
71	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 pitcher	amod
72	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 sword	conj
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	foals = foal				to the trunk result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to trunk=Result
2	break down	past	the eldest foal	trunk	one side		in the room	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	see	past	foals = foal	a door		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
4	stand	past · perfect · progressive	the trunk					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	this	a small room				tree rules
6	hang	past		a great rusty sword and a small pitcher	the door			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme behind door=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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