The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 8
And this was what happened when the girl went as usual to bolt the door and make all fast for the night.
Who acts: this, girl · What happens: be, bolt, make · To what, where: door
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 (this, girl), 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 | _ | 4 what | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | cop |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 went | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 usual | case |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bolt | mark |
| 13 | bolt | bolt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bolt | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 make | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the girl | as usual; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bolt | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | the door | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | the girl not said here | night | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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