The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 62
The lord of all this treasure locked the doors and put the keys in his pocket, then led Hans into another room, where dinner was laid for them.
Who acts: lord · What happens: lock, put, lead, lay · To what, where: doors, keys, pocket, Hans, room, dinner
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 (lord), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 locked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 treasure | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 treasure | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 treasure | det |
| 6 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lord | nmod |
| 7 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doors | det |
| 9 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 locked | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 locked | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 keys | det |
| 13 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl | ||
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 led | advmod |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 locked | conj |
| 20 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 room | det |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laid | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 laid | advmod |
| 26 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 laid | aux:pass |
| 28 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 led | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laid | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | the lord of all treasure | the doors | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the lord of all treasure not said here | the keys | lord's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent key=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | the lord of all treasure not said here | Hans | another room | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hans=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 4 | lay | past · passive | dinner | for rooms = room | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for they=Beneficiary |
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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