The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 83
One by one the kids came home, and at every bleat someone hurried to open the door, but no sound broke the stillness.
Who acts: One, someone, sound · What happens: come, hurry, open, break · To what, where: bleat, door, stillness
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, someone, sound), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 came | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kids | det |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurried | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 bleat | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bleat | det |
| 12 | bleat | bleat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurried | obl |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 hurried | nsubj |
| 14 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 open | mark |
| 16 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hurried | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 open | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 broke | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 sound | det |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stillness | det |
| 25 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | One by one | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past | someone | every bleat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | someone not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | past | no sound | the stillness | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stillness=Patient |
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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