The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 125
They went into the garden, and when the lights in the palace were put out one after the other, the crow led Gerda to a back-door.
Who acts: stairs, crow · What happens: go, put out, lead · To what, where: garden, lights, Gerda, back door
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stairs, crow), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 put | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lights | det |
| 10 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lights | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux:pass |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 put | compound:prt |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 led | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crow | det |
| 23 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | nsubj |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 25 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 door | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 back | punct |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | stairs = stair | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | put out | past · passive | the lights in the palace | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset one=Goal | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | the crow | Gerda | a back door | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to door=Destination |
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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