Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 137
The door was fastened, but she pressed against the rusty latch, and it gave way.
Who acts: Gerda, door · What happens: fasten, press, give · To what, where: door, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, 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 | 4 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fastened | aux:pass |
| 4 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pressed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 pressed | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pressed | nsubj |
| 8 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fastened | parataxis |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 latch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 latch | det |
| 11 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 latch | amod |
| 12 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pressed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pressed | conj |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | the door | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | press | past | Gerda | against the rusty latch | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against latch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | door | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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: «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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