Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 6
The door was opened, and he was led forth, and fixed his eyes upon my round disc.
What happens: open, lead, fix · To what, where: door, prisoner, eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | aux:pass |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | advcl |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 led | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fixed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fixed | cc |
| 13 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fixed | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 disc | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 disc | nmod:poss |
| 18 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 disc | amod |
| 19 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | prisoner | forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fix | past | prisoner's eyes | upon my round disc | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=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: «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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