The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 41

So that night, as she went to her room, she was seized by four masked figures, and carried up into the topmost room of a high tower, where they left her in the deepest dejection.

Who acts: visit, four, figures · What happens: go, seize, mask, carry up, leave · To what, where: room, visit, figures, topmost room, deepest dejection

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visit, four, figures), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 room	nmod:poss
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seized	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seized	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seized	aux:pass
14	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 went	parataxis
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 masked	mark
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 masked	nsubj
17	masked	mask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seized	ccomp
18	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 masked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 carried	cc
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 carried	compound:prt
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 room	det
25	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 room	amod
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 tower	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tower	det
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tower	amod
30	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 room	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 left	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 left	nsubj
34	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tower	acl:relcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 left	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 dejection	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 dejection	det
38	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 dejection	amod
39	dejection	dejection	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 left	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	visit		visit's room	night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
2	seize	past · passive		visit			tree rules
3	mask	past	four	figures			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme figure=Destination
4	carry up	past	visit not said here		the topmost room of a high tower		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	leave	past	figures = figure	visit	the deepest dejection		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in dejection=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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