The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 28
She opened all the doors, and showed the strangers the treasures the robbers had gathered together; but the Prince bade her keep them all for herself, as he wanted none of them, and so he rode further with his servant.
Who acts: girl, treasures, Prince · What happens: open, show, gather, bade, keep, want · To what, where: doors, strangers, robbers, none
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, treasures, Prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 doors | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doors | det |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 opened | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 showed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 showed | cc |
| 8 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 strangers | det |
| 10 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 showed | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 treasures | det |
| 12 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 strangers | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robbers | det |
| 14 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gathered | aux |
| 16 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 gathered | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 bade | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 bade | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prince | det |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bade | nsubj |
| 22 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 keep | nmod:poss |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bade | xcomp |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 herself | case |
| 28 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 all | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wanted | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 wanted | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wanted | nsubj |
| 32 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bade | conj |
| 33 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 32 wanted | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 none | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rode | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rode | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 rode | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 rode | nsubj |
| 40 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 41 | further | further | ADV | _ | 40 rode | advmod |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 servant | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 servant | nmod:poss |
| 44 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rode | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | girl | all doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | past | girl not said here | the strangers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | gather | past · perfect · passive | the treasures not said here | the robbers | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | bade | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | the Prince not said here | robbers = robber | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | want | past | Prince | none | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot none=Theme | ||||
| 7 | ride | past | Prince | with Prince's servant; further property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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 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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