The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 128
The door of the castle stood open, and they entered a great hall, and looked about them.
Who acts: door, words · What happens: stand, enter, look · To what, where: great hall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, words), 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 | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 door | nmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entered | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 entered | nsubj |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hall | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hall | amod |
| 14 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the door of the castle | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | words = word | a great hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the door of the castle not said here | about words = word | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=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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