The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 54
“Can’t you open the big door?” said the giants; “we shall hardly be able to get in at this one.”
Who acts: you, giants, we · What happens: not open, say, be, get in · To what, where: big door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, giants, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 open | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 open | nsubj |
| 5 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 open | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giants | det |
| 13 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 18 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 20 able | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open in a quote | can | you | the big door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the giants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | we | able, hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get in in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | at this one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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