The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 145
And now Little Lasse saw that the kitchen door was open, and from within there was heard a low, pleasant frizzling, like that which is heard when one whisks yellow batter with a wooden ladle into a hot frying-pan.
Who acts: Little, kitchen door, one · What happens: see, be, hear, whisk · To what, where: low pleasant frizzling, that, yellow batter, hot frying pan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, kitchen door, one), 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 | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Little | flat |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 open | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 open | cop |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux:pass |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 frizzling | det |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 frizzling | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 low | punct |
| 22 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 frizzling | amod |
| 23 | frizzling | frizzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heard | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 heard | aux:pass |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 heard | conj |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 whisks | advmod |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 whisks | nsubj |
| 32 | whisks | whisk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 heard | advcl |
| 33 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 batter | amod |
| 34 | batter | batter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 whisks | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 ladle | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 ladle | det |
| 37 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ladle | amod |
| 38 | ladle | ladle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 whisks | obl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 pan | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 pan | det |
| 41 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pan | amod |
| 42 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pan | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 frying | punct |
| 44 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 whisks | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Little | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the kitchen door | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | Little not said here | a low pleasant frizzling | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: frizzling=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | present · passive | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | whisk | present | one | yellow batter | into a hot frying pan result; with a wooden ladle | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent batter=Patient with ladle=Instrument into pan=Result |
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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