The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 103
The idiot rose and was opening the gate which led into the forest when the farmer himself came up.
Who acts: idiot, gate, farmer · What happens: rise, open, lead, come up · To what, where: gate, forest
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idiot, gate, farmer), 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 idiot | det |
| 2 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opening | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opening | aux |
| 6 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opening | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 led | nsubj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gate | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 farmer | det |
| 16 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 farmer | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 led | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the idiot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | past · progressive | the idiot not said here | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the gate | the forest | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into forest=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come up | past | the farmer farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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