The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 10
'There is something the matter with the door; it won't shut,' answered she.
Who acts: door · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shut | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | appos |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 12 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 shut | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 shut | advmod |
| 14 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shut | parataxis |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | door | shut property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | daughter | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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