The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 40

When he got to the twelfth he paused, but his curiosity was too much for him, and in another instant the key was turned and the cellar lay open before him.

Who acts: CAN, curiosity, cellar · What happens: get, pause, be, turn, lie · To what, where: twelfth, key

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, curiosity, cellar), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 twelfth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 twelfth	det
6	twelfth	twelfth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 paused	nsubj
8	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 twelfth	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 much	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 much	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 curiosity	nmod:poss
12	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 much	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 much	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 much	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 turned	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 instant	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 instant	det
22	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 key	det
24	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turned	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	aux:pass
26	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lay	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	nsubj
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 turned	conj
31	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lay	xcomp
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lay	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	CAN			to the twelfth result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to twelfth=Result
2	pause	past	CAN	the twelfth not said here			tree rules
3	is	past	CAN's curiosity			for CAN; much property	tree rules
4	turn	past · passive		the key		in another instant	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in instant=Topic
5	lie	past	the cellar		before CAN	open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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