The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 99
‘Go then!’ cried Tephany, and entering the house she slammed the door behind her.
Who acts: Aziliez · What happens: go, cry, enter, slam · To what, where: house, door
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aziliez), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entering | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 entering | cc |
| 10 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entering | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slammed | nsubj |
| 14 | slammed | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slammed | obj |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slammed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | |||||
| 4 | slam | past | Aziliez | the door | behind Tephany | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Patient behind she=Location |
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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