Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 99
But the prince and the others wouldn't leave the house till they had seen her; so the two sisters had to open the door.
Who acts: prince, princes, two sisters · What happens: not leave, see, have, open · To what, where: house, sister, door
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, princes, two sisters), 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 leave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 others | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 others | det |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prince | conj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 leave | advmod |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 leave | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 had | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sisters | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 sisters | nummod |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 open | mark |
| 24 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 open | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | would | the prince and the others | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | princes = prince | sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the two sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | the two sisters not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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