The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 55
She sat at home, sad and hungry, when a neighbour knocked at the door.
Who acts: Girl, neighbour · What happens: sit, knock · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girl, neighbour), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sad | punct |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hungry | cc |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sad | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knocked | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 knocked | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 neighbour | det |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocked | nsubj |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sad | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Girl | home | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | knock | participle | a neighbour | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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