The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 36
Late in the evening he arrived at the house of the herdsman, and knocked at the door, which was opened by a little boy.
Who acts: sword, little boy · What happens: arrive, knock, open · To what, where: house, door
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, little boy), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 herdsman | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 herdsman | det |
| 12 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knocked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knocked | cc |
| 15 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knocked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 opened | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 opened | aux:pass |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 door | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 boy | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boy | amod |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 opened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | sword | the house of the herdsman | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | knock | past | sword not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | past · passive | a little boy | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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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