The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 127
But now matters were less easy, for he could not get inside the yard, as it was evening and the gate was locked.
Who acts: king, yard · What happens: matter, be, not get, lock · To what, where: gate
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, yard), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 matters | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 matters | advmod |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | cop |
| 5 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 easy | advmod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 matters | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 easy | parataxis |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 15 yard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yard | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 evening | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 evening | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 evening | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 evening | cop |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 locked | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gate | det |
| 23 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 locked | aux:pass |
| 25 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 evening | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | now | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | easy, less property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not get | could | king | inside the yard | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | yard | as evening | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lock | past · passive | the gate | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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