English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold., sentence 1

But as the gate was open, she went through it, and found no one there.

Who acts: gate, she · What happens: be, go, find · To what, where: gate

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, she), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 open	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 open	cop
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 open	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 there	obl:unmarked
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 found	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gate		open property	tree rules
2	go	past	she	gate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_Location
3	find	past	she not said here	there		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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