English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 47

So he went through this passage till at last he came to two wide and high folding-doors which stood ajar.

Who acts: Elfland, two wide folding doors · What happens: go, come, stand · To what, where: passage, two wide folding doors

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 (Elfland, two wide folding doors), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 passage	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 passage	det
6	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 last	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	19 doors	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 doors	nummod
14	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 doors	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 high	cc
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wide	conj
17	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doors	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 folding	punct
19	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 doors	acl:relcl
22	ajar	ajar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stood	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Elfland	this passage	till last		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through passage=Initial_Location
2	come	past	Elfland	two wide folding doors			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	stand	past	two wide folding doors			ajar property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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: «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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