The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 37
She burst open his door while he was still dressing: “Well, Toper!” was her greeting, “have you been drinking all night, wasting money that you steal from my housekeeping?
Who acts: wife, Peter, Toper, you, my · What happens: burst, open, dress, be, drink, waste · To what, where: door, greeting, money, housekeeping
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Peter, Toper, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 burst | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 door | nmod:poss |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 dressing | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dressing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dressing | aux |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 dressing | advmod |
| 10 | dressing | dress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 open | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Toper | punct |
| 13 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 Toper | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Well | punct |
| 15 | Toper | toper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 greeting | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Toper | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Toper | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 greeting | cop |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 greeting | nmod:poss |
| 20 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drinking | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 drinking | punct |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 drinking | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 drinking | nsubj |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 drinking | aux |
| 26 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 burst | advcl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drinking | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wasting | punct |
| 30 | wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 drinking | conj |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wasting | obj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 steal | obj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 steal | nsubj |
| 34 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 money | acl:relcl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 housekeeping | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 housekeeping | nmod:poss |
| 37 | housekeeping | housekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wasting | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | wife not said here | Peter's door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dress | past · progressive | Peter | still | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Toper | wife's greeting | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drink in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | night | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | waste in a quote | gerund | you not said here | money | my housekeeping | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 7 | steal in a quote | present | you | money | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | ||||
| 8 | housekeep in a quote | my | nom housekeeping «act intransitive»: poss=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: «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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