The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 12

When he reached the castle he found the outer gate open, quite as if he were an expected guest, but no sooner had he stepped across the entry than the heavy door closed behind him with a bang, and was bolted with a huge iron bar, exactly as if a sentinel were doing his office and keeping watch, but no human being was to be seen anywhere.

Who acts: treasure, sentinel · What happens: reach, find, expect, be, have, step · To what, where: castle, outer gate, expected guest, treasure, entry, heavy door

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure, sentinel), 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	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gate	amod
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 guest	punct
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 guest	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 guest	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 guest	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 guest	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 guest	cop
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 guest	det
19	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 guest	amod
20	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 sooner	det
24	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 had	advmod
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	obj
27	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 had	xcomp
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 entry	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 entry	det
30	entry	entry	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stepped	obl
31	than	than	ADP	_	34 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 door	det
33	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 door	amod
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 entry	nmod
35	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 door	acl
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 closed	obl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 bang	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bang	det
40	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 closed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bolted	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bolted	cc
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 bolted	aux:pass
44	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	conj
45	with	with	ADP	_	49 bar	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 bar	det
47	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 bar	amod
48	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bar	compound
49	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bolted	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 doing	punct
51	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	57 doing	advmod
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 doing	mark
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 doing	mark
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 sentinel	det
55	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 doing	nsubj
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 doing	aux
57	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 bolted	advcl
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 office	nmod:poss
59	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 doing	obj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 keeping	cc
61	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 doing	conj
62	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 keeping	obj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 seen	punct
64	but	but	CCONJ	_	71 seen	cc
65	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	66 human	det
66	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 seen	mark
67	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	71 seen	aux:pass
68	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 seen	aux:pass
69	to	to	PART	_	71 seen	mark
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 seen	aux:pass
71	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 bolted	conj
72	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	71 seen	advmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	treasure	the castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
2	find	past	treasure	the outer gate		open property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Topic
3	expect	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	treasure	a expected guest			tree rules
5	have	past	treasure not said here	treasure		soon property	tree rules
6	step	participle	treasure not said here		the entry than the heavy door		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across entry=Trajectory
7	close	participle		the heavy door not said here		behind treasure; with a bang	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bang=Theme
8	bolt	past · passive	treasure not said here			with a huge iron bar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»
9	do	past · progressive	a sentinel	treasure's office		exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Eventuality
10	keep	gerund	a sentinel not said here	watch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
11	see	gerund · passive	treasure not said here			anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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