The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 40
And in an instant he had burst open the door, and all three were bounding away in the direction of the voice.
Who acts: Iron, you, three · What happens: burst, open, bound away · To what, where: instant, door, direction
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 (Iron, you, three), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 open | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 burst | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 burst | aux |
| 7 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 instant | acl:relcl |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bounding | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bounding | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 three | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 bounding | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bounding | aux |
| 16 | bounding | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 open | advcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 bounding | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 direction | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 direction | det |
| 20 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bounding | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 direction | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past · perfect | Iron | a instant not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location instant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | imperative | you not said here | the door | a instant | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in instant=Location | |||
| 3 | bound away | past · progressive | all three | the direction of the voice | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
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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