English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 42
And the third time the door did open, and he went in, and it closed with a click, and Childe Rowland was left in the dark.
Who acts: door, woe · What happens: go in, close, leave · To what, where: Childe, dark
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, woe), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 open | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | aux |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 open | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 closed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 closed | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 closed | nsubj |
| 17 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 click | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 click | det |
| 20 | click | click | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 closed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 left | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 left | cc |
| 23 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 left | nsubj |
| 24 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Childe | flat |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | aux:pass |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 went | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 dark | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dark | det |
| 29 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 left | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | door | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | close | past | woe | with a click | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | Childe | the dark | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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