Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 145
The door was locked, and he could not reach the knocker.
Who acts: boy · What happens: lock, not reach · To what, where: door, knocker
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | aux:pass |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reach | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reach | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reach | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 reach | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 reach | advmod |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 locked | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knocker | det |
| 12 | knocker | knocker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reach | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past · passive | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not reach | could | boy | the knocker | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent knocker=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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