The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 23
The kitchen door stood open, and inside was heard a strange frizzling.
Who acts: kitchen door · What happens: stand, hear · To what, where: strange frizzling
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | compound |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux:pass |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 frizzling | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 frizzling | amod |
| 13 | frizzling | frizzling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the kitchen door | open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the kitchen door not said here | a strange frizzling | inside property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: frizzling=Stimulus |
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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