Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 95
The windows were quickly opened, to let in a little fresh air.
What happens: open, let · To what, where: windows, little fresh air
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 windows | det |
| 2 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 opened | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 air | amod |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 air | amod |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the windows | quickly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | a little fresh air | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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