The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 30

So one day, when the Giant had gone into the forest, he tried to get into the parlour, and managed to get the door open half-way.

Who acts: Giant, Prince · What happens: go, try, get, manage · To what, where: forest, parlour, door

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, Prince), 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	So	so	ADV	_	15 tried	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tried	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 day	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tried	nsubj
15	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tried	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 parlour	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 parlour	det
20	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 managed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 managed	cc
23	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tried	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 get	mark
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
28	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 way	amod
29	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 way	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 half	punct
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the Giant		the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
2	try	past	Prince			day		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		the parlour			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into parlour=Destination
4	manage	past	Prince not said here					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	get	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the door			open half way obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus

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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