The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 39
And he went downstairs and unlocked the doors, one after the other.
Who acts: CAN · What happens: go, unlock · To what, where: doors
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CAN), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unlocked | cc |
| 6 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doors | det |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 unlocked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 doors | appos |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | CAN | downstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unlock | past | CAN not said here | the doors | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
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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