The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 75
Next he locked his door, and ordered a shower of gold to cover the staircase, and when this was done, the door was flung wide open, and everyone came and peeped at the shining golden stairs.
Who acts: Ciccu, everyone · What happens: lock, order, cover, do, fling, come · To what, where: door, shower, staircase, this
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, everyone), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 locked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 locked | nsubj |
| 3 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 door | nmod:poss |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 locked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 locked | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shower | det |
| 10 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ordered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shower | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cover | mark |
| 14 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 staircase | det |
| 16 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cover | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 done | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 done | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 done | advmod |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 done | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 locked | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 flung | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flung | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 flung | aux:pass |
| 27 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 done | advcl |
| 28 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 open | advmod |
| 29 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 flung | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 came | cc |
| 32 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 locked | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 peeped | cc |
| 35 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 came | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 stairs | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stairs | det |
| 38 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 stairs | amod |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 stairs | amod |
| 40 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 peeped | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | Ciccu | Ciccu's door | next property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 2 | order | past | a shower of gold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cover | to-infinitive | the staircase | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Destination | |||||
| 4 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fling | past · passive | the door | open property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | everyone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | peep | past | everyone not said here | at the shining golden stairs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stair=Theme | ||||
| 8 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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