The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 81
Then a maiden with curling hair of gold looked through the little door and bade Owen open the gate.
What happens: curl, look, open · To what, where: hair, gold, gate
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 maiden | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 curling | mark |
| 5 | curling | curl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 maiden | advcl |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curling | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hair | nmod |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gold | acl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 door | amod |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bade | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | conj |
| 16 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bade | appos |
| 17 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 curling | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gate | det |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 open | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl | gerund | hair of gold | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | participle | gold not said here | through the little door and bade | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | the gate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=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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