The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 43

He found a little door behind the altar which was not locked, and at ten o’clock he slipped out at it, and took to his heels and made for the beach.

Who acts: Christian · What happens: find, not lock, slip out, take, make · To what, where: little door, altar, ten o’clock

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 altar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 altar	det
8	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 locked	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 locked	aux:pass
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 locked	advmod
12	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 altar	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slipped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slipped	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 o’clock	case
16	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 o’clock	nummod
17	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slipped	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 slipped	nsubj
19	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 slipped	compound:prt
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 slipped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 heels	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heels	nmod:poss
28	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 took	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 took	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 beach	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beach	det
33	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Christian	a little door	the altar		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
2	not lock	past · passive		the altar			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	slip out	past	Christian		ten o’clock	at o’clock = o'clock	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	take	past				to Christian's heels result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result
5	make	participle				for the beach	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for beach=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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