The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 105
If the door bursts open suddenly with great crackings and groanings do not be afraid, the noise is caused by the power of the magic root, and you will not be hurt.
Who acts: door, great crackings, power · What happens: burst, not be, cause, not hurt · To what, where: noise, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, great crackings, power), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 bursts | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bursts | nsubj |
| 4 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bursts | xcomp |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 bursts | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 afraid | mark |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 crackings | amod |
| 9 | crackings | cracking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 afraid | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 groanings | cc |
| 11 | groanings | groaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crackings | conj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 afraid | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 afraid | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 afraid | cop |
| 15 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bursts | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 caused | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 noise | det |
| 18 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caused | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 caused | aux:pass |
| 20 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 afraid | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caused | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 root | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 root | det |
| 26 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 root | amod |
| 27 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 power | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hurt | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hurt | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 hurt | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hurt | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 hurt | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hurt | aux:pass |
| 34 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bursts | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bursts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | present | the door | open, suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present · do-support | great crackings and groanings | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | present · passive | the power of the magic root | the noise | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not hurt | future · passive | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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