The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 110

But when he saw that a cross had been made on the door of the house where the Soldier lived, he took a piece of chalk also, and made crosses on all the doors in the town; and that was very clever, for now the lady-in-waiting could not find the right house, as there were crosses on all the doors.

Who acts: soldier, that, lady, crosses · What happens: see, make, live, take, be, not find · To what, where: cross, door, piece, crosses, doors, right house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, that, lady, crosses), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cross	det
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nmod
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 lived	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Soldier	det
19	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 house	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 piece	det
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 chalk	case
27	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	also	also	ADV	_	23 took	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
32	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 doors	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 doors	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 doors	det
36	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 town	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 town	det
39	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 doors	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 clever	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 clever	cc
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 clever	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 clever	cop
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 clever	advmod
45	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 find	punct
47	for	for	SCONJ	_	57 find	mark
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 find	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 lady	det
50	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 find	nsubj
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 waiting	punct
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 waiting	case
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 in	punct
54	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 find	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 find	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 find	advmod
57	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 clever	parataxis
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 house	det
59	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 house	amod
60	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 find	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 were	punct
62	as	as	SCONJ	_	64 were	mark
63	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	64 were	expl
64	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 find	parataxis
65	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 were	nsubj
66	on	on	ADP	_	69 doors	case
67	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	69 doors	det:predet
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 doors	det
69	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 crosses	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	soldier					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	past · perfect · passive		a cross	the door of the house			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	live	past	the Soldier					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	soldier	a piece of chalk				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
5	make	past	soldier not said here	crosses	all doors in the town			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cross=Product
6	is	past	that				clever property	tree rules
7	not find	could	the lady	the right house		now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic
8	be	past	crosses on all doors		there			vn exist-47.1 «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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