The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 83
But just as he was passing through the door the tip of the sheath touched it, and the door gave a loud shriek.
Who acts: servant, door · What happens: pass, touch, give · To what, where: tip, door, loud shriek
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, door), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 touched | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 passing | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 passing | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passing | aux |
| 6 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 touched | advcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passing | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tip | det |
| 11 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sheath | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheath | det |
| 14 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tip | nmod |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touched | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 touched | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shriek | det |
| 23 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shriek | amod |
| 24 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | servant | the tip of the sheath | the door | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tip=Theme through door=Destination | |||
| 2 | touch | past | tip | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the door | a loud shriek | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=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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