The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 153
There they found the grandmother and everything just as it had been, but when they went through the doorway they found they were grown-up.
Who acts: hands, sweetheart · What happens: find, be, go, grow up · To what, where: grandmother, doorway, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, sweetheart), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grandmother | det |
| 5 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 everything | cc |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 grandmother | conj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 been | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 been | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 been | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 been | aux |
| 12 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 found | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 doorway | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 doorway | det |
| 20 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 doorway | acl:relcl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 grown | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grown | aux:pass |
| 25 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 found | ccomp |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 up | punct |
| 27 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grown | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | hands = hand | the grandmother | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Topic | |||
| 2 | be | past · perfect | sweetheart | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | hands = hand | the doorway | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through doorway=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | find | past | hands = hand | the doorway not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent doorway=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow up | past · passive | hands = hand | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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