The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 86

Some time after her mistress said to Catherine, ‘I am obliged to go out for a long while, and must lock the house door, so that no thieves shall get in.’

Who acts: thieves · What happens: say, oblige, go out, lock, get in · To what, where: Catherine, I, house door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 mistress	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mistress	nmod:poss
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Catherine	case
8	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 obliged	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 obliged	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 obliged	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 obliged	aux:pass
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 obliged	xcomp
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 while	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 while	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 while	amod
20	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lock	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lock	cc
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 lock	aux
24	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 door	compound
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lock	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 get	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 get	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 thieves	det
32	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 get	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 get	aux
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lock	advcl
35	in	in	ADV	_	34 get	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 lock	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 lock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past			Catherine	after woman's mistress; time		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to catherine=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	oblige	present · passive		I				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	go out	to-infinitive				while	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lock	must		the house door				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	get in	shall	no thieves					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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