The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 16
The three great doors were closely barred, and the one through which she had entered shut with a spring, but her feather was still in her hair, and by its aid she detected a crack in the wooden panelling, through which a streak of light could be dimly seen.
Who acts: door, feather · What happens: bar, enter, shut, be, detect, see · To what, where: three great doors, hair, crack, wooden panelling, streak
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, feather), 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 | 4 doors | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 doors | nummod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doors | amod |
| 4 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 barred | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barred | aux:pass |
| 6 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 7 barred | advmod |
| 7 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barred | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 entered | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 entered | aux |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 entered | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 spring | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spring | det |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shut | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hair | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 hair | cc |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feather | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hair | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hair | cop |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 hair | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hair | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hair | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barred | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 detected | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 detected | cc |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 aid | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 aid | nmod:poss |
| 34 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 detected | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 detected | nsubj |
| 36 | detected | detect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barred | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 crack | det |
| 38 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 detected | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 panelling | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 panelling | det |
| 41 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 panelling | amod |
| 42 | panelling | panelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 detected | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 seen | punct |
| 44 | through | through | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 seen | obl |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 streak | det |
| 47 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 light | case |
| 49 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 streak | nmod |
| 50 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 seen | aux |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 seen | aux:pass |
| 52 | dimly | dimly | ADV | _ | 53 seen | advmod |
| 53 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 detected | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 barred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bar | past · passive | the three great doors | closely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past · perfect | door | through the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shut | participle | door not said here | spring | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | door's feather | door's hair | still | tree rules | |||
| 5 | detect | past | door | a crack | the wooden panelling | by feather's aid | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus | ||
| 6 | see | could · passive | a streak of light | dimly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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