The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 16
Accordingly he went in to where she was, and she opened a large room for him, where he saw a number of men lying asleep.
Who acts: plenty, need, men · What happens: go in, be, open, see, lie · To what, where: large room, number
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, need, men), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 was | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opened | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 number | det |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 number | nmod |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 men | acl |
| 27 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lying | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | plenty | accordingly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | need | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | past | need | a large room | for plenty | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | past | plenty | a number of men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | men not said here | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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