The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 90
This he unlocked, and found himself in a narrow passage closed by another door, which he also opened.
Who acts: This, king · What happens: unlock, find, close, open · To what, where: king, narrow passage, door
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 unlocked | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unlocked | nsubj |
| 3 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unlocked | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 passage | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 passage | det |
| 10 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passage | amod |
| 11 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 passage | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 opened | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 opened | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 opened | advmod |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 door | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unlocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlock | past | This | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find | past | This not said here | king | a narrow passage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | close | participle | a narrow passage not said here | by another door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | open | past | king | another door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=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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