The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 26
But as soon as his back was turned she forgot what he had said, and having wandered through all the other rooms she went down to the cellar and opened the door.
Who acts: sister, fox · What happens: turn, forget, say, wander, go down, open · To what, where: back, other rooms, door · 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 (sister, fox), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgot | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 turned | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 turned | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | aux:pass |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 forgot | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgot | nsubj |
| 10 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 forgot | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wandered | cc |
| 17 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wandered | aux |
| 18 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 forgot | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 rooms | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 rooms | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rooms | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rooms | amod |
| 23 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wandered | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rooms | acl:relcl |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 cellar | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cellar | det |
| 29 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 opened | cc |
| 31 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 door | det |
| 33 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 opened | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · passive | fox's back | soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | sister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wander | gerund · perfect | sister not said here | all other rooms | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | go down | past | sister | all other rooms not said here | to the cellar result; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient room=Extent to cellar=Result | |||
| 6 | open | past | sister not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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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