The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 64
The doors were open, and the bride could be seen from afar, walking under the chestnut avenue.
Who acts: doors · What happens: be, see, walk · To what, where: bride, afar, chestnut avenue
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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 | 2 doors | det |
| 2 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bride | det |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 open | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 afar | case |
| 13 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walking | punct |
| 15 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 seen | advcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 avenue | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 avenue | det |
| 18 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 avenue | compound |
| 19 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the doors | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | the bride | afar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | the chestnut avenue | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under avenue=Trajectory |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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