The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 120
The youth then want straight down the staircase till he reached the door; then he turned and demanded that the key should be brought.
Who acts: youth · What happens: want, reach, turn, demand, bring · To what, where: youth, door, key · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 staircase | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 staircase | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 staircase | det |
| 8 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 turned | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 demanded | cc |
| 19 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 key | det |
| 22 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 demanded | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the youth | then | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme staircase=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | youth | the door | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | youth | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | past | youth not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | bring | should · passive | the key | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/120/