The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 59
The house door stood open, but through a crack the mink could see the wolves crowding in the corner behind it.
Who acts: house door, mink, wolves · What happens: stand, see, crowd · To what, where: wolves, crack, corner
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house door, mink, wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:2191): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | compound |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 crack | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crack | det |
| 10 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mink | det |
| 12 | mink | mink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stood | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolves | det |
| 16 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | crowding | crowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 see | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 corner | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 corner | det |
| 20 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crowding | obl |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 corner | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the house door | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | could | the mink | the wolves | a crack | tree rules | |||
| 3 | crowd | gerund | the wolves not said here | the corner behind door | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in corner=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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