The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 17

Again the king called out: ‘Open, Sartara Martara of the earth!’ and this door opened like the other, and they came into the apartment where the princess dwelt, the floor, walls, and roof of which were all of silver.

Who acts: king, door, Open, princess · What happens: call out, open, come, dwell · To what, where: roof, apartment, floor

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, door, Open, princess), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 called	compound:prt
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Open	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Open	punct
8	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Martara	punct
10	Sartara	Sartara	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Martara	compound
11	Martara	Martara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Open	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Martara	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Open	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Open	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 opened	cc
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	nsubj
20	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 opened	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opened	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 apartment	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 apartment	det
30	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 dwelt	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 princess	det
33	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dwelt	nsubj
34	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 apartment	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 floor	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 floor	det
37	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dwelt	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 walls	punct
39	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 floor	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 roof	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 roof	cc
42	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 all	obl
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 all	cop
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 roof	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 silver	case
48	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 all	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle	the king			again		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	open	past	this door				like the other	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	Open	roof all	the apartment			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into apartment=Initial_Location
4	dwell	past	the princess	the floor and walls				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme floor=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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