The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 89
Below the floor there was a staircase, which he went down till he reached a door at the foot.
Who acts: staircase, king · What happens: be, go down, reach · To what, where: staircase, floor, door, foot
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 (staircase, king), 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 | Below | below | ADP | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 staircase | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 staircase | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 staircase | det |
| 7 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 went | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 foot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 foot | det |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 staircase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a staircase | the floor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | a staircase | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | king | a door | the foot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent door=Theme at foot=Asset |
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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