The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 16
I'll be out as soon as the porter opens the door."
Who acts: I, porter · What happens: be, open · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, porter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 out | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 out | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 out | cop |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 opens | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 out | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 opens | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porter | det |
| 9 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opens | nsubj |
| 10 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opens | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opens | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I | out, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | present | the porter | 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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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