The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 56
The door stood open and he entered, and the old man gave him welcome, and the golden- haired maiden likewise.
Who acts: door, old man · What happens: stand, enter, give · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, old man), 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 | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 entered | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gave | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 maiden | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 maiden | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 maiden | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 haired | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 golden | punct |
| 21 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maiden | amod |
| 22 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 23 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 22 maiden | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the door | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | door | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the old man | door | welcome property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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