The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 38
With these words he unlocked a door in the cave, and bade Hans pass in before him.
Who acts: work, bade Hans · What happens: unlock, pass in · To what, where: door, cave
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, bade Hans), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unlocked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unlocked | nsubj |
| 5 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unlocked | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unlocked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pass | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pass | cc |
| 13 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hans | compound |
| 14 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unlocked | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pass | compound:prt |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pass | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unlocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlock | past | work | a door | the cave | with this words | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||
| 2 | pass in | present | bade Hans | before work | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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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