The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 80
While he was in this sore plight a little door in the castle gate opened, and he could see a street facing him, with tall houses.
Who acts: blow, little door, street · What happens: be, open, see, face · To what, where: sore plight, street, blow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, little door, street), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:2741): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 plight | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 plight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plight | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 plight | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 plight | det |
| 6 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plight | amod |
| 7 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 door | amod |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gate | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gate | compound |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | nmod |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 opened | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 street | det |
| 22 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 street | acl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 facing | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 houses | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 houses | case |
| 27 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 houses | amod |
| 28 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 street | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | blow | this sore plight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | a little door in the castle gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | could | blow | a street | with tall houses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | face | gerund | a street not said here | blow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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