The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 88
Every door of the castle stood wide open, and every window and turret was illuminated, so it looked more wonderful than before.
Who acts: door, window · What happens: stand, illuminate, look · To what, where: window
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 (door, window), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 door | nmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 6 stood | advmod |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 illuminated | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 illuminated | cc |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turret | cc |
| 14 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 window | conj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 16 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 wonderful | advmod |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 looked | xcomp |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 before | case |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 wonderful | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | every door of the castle | open, wide property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | illuminate | past · passive | every window and turret | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | look | past | window | wonderful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 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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