The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 34
The carriage door swung back, as if by magic, and a white doe sprang out, and in a moment was lost to sight in the forest.
Who acts: carriage door, white doe · What happens: swing back, spring out, lose · To what, where: forest
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage door, white doe), 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 | 3 door | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | compound |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 magic | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 magic | case |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 magic | mark |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 magic | case |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sprang | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sprang | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 doe | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 doe | amod |
| 15 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sprang | nsubj |
| 16 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 swung | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sprang | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lost | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lost | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 moment | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moment | det |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lost | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | aux:pass |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swung | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sight | mark |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lost | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lost | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing back | past | the carriage door | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | spring out | gerund | a white doe | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | the carriage door not said here | the forest | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in forest=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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