The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 42
‘Is there a porter?’ cried Kilweh, looking round for someone to open the gate.
What happens: be, look round, open · To what, where: gate
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 porter | det |
| 5 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Is | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Is | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 someone | case |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 looking | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 open | mark |
| 16 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 looking | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gate | det |
| 18 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 open | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | cry property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look round | gerund | for someone; round property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for someone=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | to-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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