The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 65
When Niels left the castle, he shut the door behind him, and it closed with such a bang that the porter woke up.
Who acts: Niels, door, porter · What happens: leave, shut, close, wake up · To what, where: castle, door
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 (Niels, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shut | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shut | nsubj |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shut | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 closed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 closed | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 closed | nsubj |
| 16 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shut | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 bang | case |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 bang | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bang | det |
| 20 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 closed | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 woke | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 porter | det |
| 23 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 woke | nsubj |
| 24 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 closed | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 woke | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Niels | the castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shut | past | Niels | the door | behind castle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 3 | close | past | door | with such bang | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wake up | past | the porter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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