The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 34
And slamming the gate in the crone's face she went her way.
Who acts: crone · What happens: slam, go · To what, where: gate, face, way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crone), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 2 | slamming | slam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gate | det |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slamming | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crone | det |
| 7 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 crone | case |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slamming | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slam | gerund | crone not said here | the gate | the crone's face | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gate=Patient in face=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | crone | crone's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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