The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 36
And he threw open the door of the seventh stall, where his mightiest goblins were locked in.
Who acts: bush · What happens: throw, open, lock in · To what, where: door, mightiest goblins
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bush), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 threw | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 threw | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stall | det |
| 9 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stall | amod |
| 10 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 locked | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 locked | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 goblins | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 goblins | amod |
| 15 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 locked | aux:pass |
| 17 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stall | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 locked | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | bush | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | bush not said here | the door of the seventh stall | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lock in | past · passive | bush's mightiest goblins | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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