The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 51
They were then taken to the bridal chamber, and the door was shut.
Who acts: door · What happens: take, be · To what, where: ears, bridal chamber
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 taken | advmod |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chamber | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chamber | det |
| 7 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chamber | amod |
| 8 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shut | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shut | cop |
| 14 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | ears = ear | the bridal chamber | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chamber=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the door | shut property | tree rules |
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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