The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 135
No one was there to bar his way, for all were asleep.
Who acts: one, all · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (one, all), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bar | mark |
| 6 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asleep | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 asleep | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 asleep | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asleep | cop |
| 13 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 there | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no one | Petru's way obl:unmarked; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all | asleep property | tree rules |
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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