The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 42
He went along the path, on and on, till he reached a large house, with a golden door standing open.
Who acts: scorpion, golden door · What happens: go, reach, stand · To what, where: path, large house
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scorpion, golden door), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 path | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 path | det |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 on | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 on | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 on | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 door | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 door | amod |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obl |
| 22 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 door | acl |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 standing | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | scorpion | the path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | scorpion | a large house | with a golden door | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a golden door not said here | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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