The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 50
She was still gathering them when the door opened and in came Denis.
Who acts: Barbaik, door, Denis · What happens: gather, open, come · To what, where: knees
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 (Barbaik, door, Denis), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gathering | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathering | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 gathering | advmod |
| 4 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gathering | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 opened | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathering | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 came | case |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | conj |
| 13 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · progressive | Barbaik | knees = knee | still | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Denis | 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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