The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 10
Early in the morning Eglantine was awakened by the sound of someone scratching at the door, and on opening her eyes she saw the white doe struggling to get out.
Who acts: sound, Eglantine, white doe · What happens: awaken, scratch, open, see, struggle, get out · To what, where: morning, eyes, white doe
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, Eglantine, 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awakened | aux:pass |
| 7 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sound | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 sound | nmod |
| 13 | scratching | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 someone | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scratching | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 20 opening | mark |
| 20 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 saw | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 opening | obj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awakened | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 doe | det |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 doe | amod |
| 27 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 28 | struggling | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 doe | acl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 get | mark |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 struggling | xcomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 get | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | the sound of someone | the morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scratch | gerund | at the door | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | |||||
| 3 | open | gerund | Eglantine not said here | Eglantine's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Eglantine | the white doe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doe=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | struggle | gerund | the white doe not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get out | to-infinitive | the white doe not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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