The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 38
And, opening the kitchen door, he fled to the ship.
Who acts: head · What happens: open, flee · To what, where: kitchen door, ship
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fled | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 opening | punct |
| 3 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fled | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | compound |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opening | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 opening | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fled | nsubj |
| 9 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | head not said here | the kitchen door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | head | the ship | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ship=Initial_Location |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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