More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 45
So saying she rose, opened another door, which was concealed by the roots of an old tree, and invited the pair to come in and see her family.
Who acts: Habetrot, roots, pair · What happens: say, rise, open, conceal, invite, come in · To what, where: door, pair, family · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Habetrot, roots, pair), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rose | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 concealed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 concealed | aux:pass |
| 12 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 door | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 roots | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 roots | det |
| 15 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 concealed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roots | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 invited | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 invited | cc |
| 22 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 invited | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 invited | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 see | cc |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 come | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 family | nmod:poss |
| 31 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Habetrot not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | Habetrot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | open | past | Habetrot not said here | another door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conceal | past · passive | the roots of a old tree | another door | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | invite | past | Habetrot not said here | the pair | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pair=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | the pair not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | infinitive | the pair not said here | Habetrot's family | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus |
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.
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