The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 24
He waited a little, but the door remained shut as tightly as before.
Who acts: castle, door · What happens: wait, remain · To what, where: little
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 (castle, door), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remained | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 remained | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remained | nsubj |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 10 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remained | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 tightly | advmod |
| 12 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 9 remained | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 before | case |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 tightly | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | castle | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | the door | shut, tightly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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