The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 122
She was only just in time, for the sheet was hardly drawn across her when the door opened and the porter came in.
Who acts: wife, time, door, porter · What happens: be, draw, open, come in · To what, where: sheet
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, time, door, porter), 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 | 6 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drawn | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 drawn | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sheet | det |
| 10 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drawn | aux:pass |
| 12 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 13 drawn | advmod |
| 13 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drawn | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 opened | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drawn | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 porter | det |
| 22 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | in time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | past · passive | time not said here | the sheet | across wife; hardly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come in | past | the porter | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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