The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 115
At the door stood a little boy, and the sight of him filled her heart with pleasure, she did not know why.
Who acts: sight, wife · What happens: stand, fill, not know, sight · To what, where: little boy, door, heart, boy
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, wife), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filled | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sight | det |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sight | nmod |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pleasure | case |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 know | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a little boy | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme at door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the sight of boy | wife's heart | with pleasure | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with pleasure=Instrument | |||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sight | boy | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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