The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 16
Sure enough the next day the dog was standing at the door waiting to be let in.
Who acts: dog · What happens: stand, wait, let in · To what, where: next day, door
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | Sure | sure | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Sure | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sure | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 standing | aux |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 day | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 standing | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 let | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | aux:pass |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 waiting | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 let | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the dog | the next day not said here | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent day=Theme at door=Destination | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the dog not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let in | to-infinitive · passive | the dog not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |
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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