More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 120
It was an opening of a door in the side of the hill.
Who acts: noise · What happens: be · To what, where: opening, side
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opening | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 opening | det |
| 4 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opening | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opening | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | noise | a opening | the side of the hill | of a door | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/15/120/