The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 121

So the king was forced to unlock the door, and the next and the next and the next, till all seven were open, and they entered into the hall where the twelve maidens were standing all in a row, so like that none might tell them apart.

Who acts: king, doors, twelve maidens, none · What happens: force, unlock, be, enter, stand, tell · To what, where: king, door, hall, row, doors · 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 (king, doors, twelve maidens, none), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 forced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forced	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forced	aux:pass
5	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 unlock	mark
7	unlock	unlock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forced	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unlock	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 next	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 next	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 next	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forced	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 next	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 next	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 next	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 next	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 next	det
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 next	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 open	punct
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 seven	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 seven	det
23	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 open	obl
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 open	cop
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forced	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 entered	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 entered	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entered	nsubj
29	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 open	advcl
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 hall	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hall	det
32	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entered	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 standing	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 maidens	det
35	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 maidens	nummod
36	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 standing	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 standing	aux
38	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 hall	acl
39	all	all	ADV	_	42 row	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 row	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 row	det
42	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 standing	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 tell	punct
44	so	so	ADV	_	49 tell	advmod
45	like	like	ADP	_	47 none	case
46	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 none	det
47	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	49 tell	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 tell	aux
49	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 entered	conj
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 tell	iobj
51	apart	apart	ADV	_	49 tell	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		the king					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	unlock	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the door					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	is	past					till all seven	open property	tree rules
4	enter	past	doors = door			the hall			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
5	stand	past · progressive	the twelve maidens			a row			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
6	tell speech: assert	might	none		doors = door			apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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 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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