The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 65
He had hardly finished speaking when one of the cedar trees opened, and a veiled figure all dressed in white stepped from it.
Who acts: king, one · What happens: finish, speak, open, veil, dress, step · To what, where: veiled figure, white, figure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 finished | advmod |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 finished | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 opened | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 10 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trees | compound |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speaking | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dressed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dressed | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 figure | det |
| 16 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 figure | amod |
| 17 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 dressed | advmod |
| 19 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 finished | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 white | case |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dressed | obl |
| 22 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 dressed | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stepped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | king | hardly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | king not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | open | past | one of the cedar trees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | veil | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | dress | participle · passive | a veiled figure | white | all property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | step | participle | figure | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=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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