The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 34

“What funny thing shall I see next?” he said to himself, and instantly the door opened, and in came a tiny figure covered by a long black veil.

Who acts: funny thing, sight, door, tiny figure · What happens: see, say, open, come, cover · To what, where: sight, tiny figure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funny thing, sight, door, tiny figure), 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	_	7 see	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 see	obj
3	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
8	next	next	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opened	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 opened	cc
17	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	20 opened	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opened	nsubj
20	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 came	case
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opened	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 figure	det
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 figure	amod
27	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
28	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 figure	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 veil	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 veil	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 veil	amod
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 veil	amod
33	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 covered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	shall	funny thing			next property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	say speech: ask	past	sight		sight		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	open	past	the door			instantly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	a tiny figure				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover	participle		a tiny figure not said here		by a long black veil	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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