The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 25

Before leaving he told his step-sister that she might go into every room in the house except into the cave where the dead robbers lay.

Who acts: fox, sister, dead robbers · What happens: leave, tell, go, lay · To what, where: step sister, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, sister, dead robbers), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 leaving	mark
2	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sister	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 step	punct
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 go	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
19	except	except	ADP	_	22 cave	case
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 cave	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cave	det
22	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 lay	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 robbers	det
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 robbers	amod
26	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cave	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	fox not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	fox	fox's step sister			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go	might	sister		every room	in the house except the cave	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
4	lay	present	the dead robbers				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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