The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 66
Door and windows, even the roofs of houses, were filled with people, whose cheers reached the ears of the king.
Who acts: cheers · What happens: fill, reach · To what, where: Door, ears
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheers), 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 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 windows | cc |
| 3 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Door | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 roofs | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 roofs | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roofs | det |
| 7 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Door | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 houses | case |
| 9 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 roofs | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Door | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filled | aux:pass |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 filled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reached | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 cheers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cheers | cheer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ears | det |
| 20 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reached | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ears | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | Door and windows and the roofs of houses | with people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with people=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | cheers | the ears of the king | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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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