English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 11
The door was barred these hours ago; how ever did you come here?”
Who acts: you · What happens: bar, come · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 barred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 barred | aux:pass |
| 4 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 hours | det |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 barred | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 come | advmod |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 come | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 barred | parataxis |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bar | past · passive | the door | ago property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · do-support | you | here | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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