The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 62
The knot-hole was too small for the wolves, and there were so many of them in the hut that it was some time before they could get the door open.
Who acts: knot hole, many, hole, Mink · What happens: be, get · To what, where: time, door
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 (knot hole, many, hole, Mink), 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 | 4 hole | det |
| 2 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hole | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 knot | punct |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wolves | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolves | det |
| 10 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 small | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 were | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 were | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | parataxis |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 were | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 many | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hut | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hut | det |
| 21 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 many | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 time | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 time | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 time | cop |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hut | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 get | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 get | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 get | aux |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 time | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 get | obj |
| 33 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 get | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the knot hole | for the wolves; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | many of Mink | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | hole | some time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | could | Mink | the door | open property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus |
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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