Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 7
The door was thrust open--it was Bruin, the great, shaggy Bruin!
Who acts: door · What happens: be · To what, where: Bruin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 open | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | cop |
| 4 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 open | compound |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bruin | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Bruin | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Bruin | cop |
| 9 | Bruin | Bruin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 open | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bruin | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bruin | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Bruin | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bruin | punct |
| 14 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Bruin | amod |
| 15 | Bruin | Bruin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Bruin | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the door | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | door | Bruin and the great shaggy Bruin | tree rules |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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