The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 55
The moment that he struck the root the iron door flew open, and from the cellar a countless multitude of men and women streamed forth.
Who acts: prince, moment · What happens: strike, fly, stream · To what, where: root, men
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, moment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 struck | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moment | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 root | det |
| 7 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 door | amod |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 struck | obj |
| 11 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flew | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cellar | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cellar | cc |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 cellar | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cellar | det |
| 17 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flew | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 multitude | det |
| 19 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 multitude | amod |
| 20 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cellar | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 multitude | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 women | cc |
| 24 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 men | conj |
| 25 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 men | acl |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 streamed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | prince | the root | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent root=Patient door=Result | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the moment | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stream | participle | men and women not said here | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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