The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 31
But as he opened the door of the storehouse, Michael was ready for him, and slipping between his legs, dashed straight off into the forest.
Who acts: bear, Michael · What happens: open, be, slip, dash · To what, where: door, legs
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, Michael), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ready | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 opened | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 storehouse | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 storehouse | det |
| 9 | storehouse | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
| 11 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ready | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | cop |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ready | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slipping | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slipping | cc |
| 18 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ready | parataxis |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 legs | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 legs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slipping | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dashed | punct |
| 23 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 legs | acl |
| 24 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 25 off | advmod |
| 25 | off | off | ADV | _ | 23 dashed | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 off | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | bear | the door of the storehouse | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Michael | for bear; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slip | gerund | between bear's legs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | dash | participle | bear's legs not said here | off property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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