The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 63
So he dressed hastily, and ran down a little secret staircase which led to the Chamber of Echoes.
Who acts: King, little secret staircase · What happens: dress, run down, lead · To what, where: little secret staircase
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, little secret staircase), 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 | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 ran | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 staircase | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 staircase | amod |
| 11 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 staircase | amod |
| 12 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 led | nsubj |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Chamber | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Chamber | det |
| 17 | Chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Echoes | case |
| 19 | Echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Chamber | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | King | hastily property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run down | past | King not said here | a little secret staircase | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | a little secret staircase | to the Chamber of Echoes | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chamber=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 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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