The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 42
Then they came to the second door, where the same thing happened as at the first, and they went in and found the princess.
Who acts: men, same thing · What happens: come, happen, go in, find · To what, where: second door, princess
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 (men, same thing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 door | amod |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 happened | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 first | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 happened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 princess | det |
| 26 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | men = man | the second door | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | happen | past | the same thing | as the first | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in | past | men = man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | men = man not said here | the princess | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
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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