Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 61
They went up to a pair of folding doors at the farther end of the hall, and throwing them wide open, passed into the next room.
Who acts: warning · What happens: go up, throw, pass · To what, where: warning, next room
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warning), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pair | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 doors | case |
| 8 | folding | folding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doors | compound |
| 9 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pair | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 12 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 end | amod |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doors | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 throwing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 throwing | cc |
| 19 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 throwing | obj |
| 21 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 open | advmod |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 throwing | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 passed | punct |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 throwing | advcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 room | det |
| 27 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 room | amod |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | warning | to a pair of folding doors at the farther end of the hall | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | warning not said here | warning | open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass | participle | warning not said here | the next room | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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