The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 22

For two days he resisted the temptation to go and look, but on the third he could stand it no longer, and taking a torch in his hand he hurried to the tower, and unfastened one lock after the other of the little iron door until it burst open.

Who acts: room, tower · What happens: resist, go, look, stand, take, hurry · To what, where: temptation, third, torch, hand, tower, one lock

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, tower), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 resisted	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 resisted	nsubj
5	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 temptation	det
7	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resisted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 temptation	acl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 look	cc
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stand	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 stand	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 third	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 third	det
16	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stand	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stand	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stand	aux
19	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stand	obj
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 longer	advmod
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 stand	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 taking	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 taking	cc
25	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 resisted	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 torch	det
27	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taking	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taking	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hurried	nsubj
32	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hand	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 tower	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tower	det
35	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hurried	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 unfastened	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 unfastened	cc
38	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 taking	conj
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 lock	nummod
40	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 unfastened	obj
41	after	after	ADP	_	43 other	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 other	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 unfastened	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 door	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 door	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 door	amod
47	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 door	compound
48	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 other	obl
49	until	until	SCONJ	_	51 burst	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 burst	nsubj
51	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 unfastened	advcl
52	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 burst	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 resisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resist	past	room	the temptation		day		tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	room not said here	the temptation not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive	room not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	stand	could	room	temptation	the third		long property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on third=Destination
5	take	gerund	room not said here	a torch	room's hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Value in hand=Location
6	hurry	past	room	room's hand not said here	the tower			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to tower=Trajectory
7	unfasten	participle	room not said here	one lock		after the other		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
8	burst	past	tower				open property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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