The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 152
The door opened on his saying: “Open Sesame!”
Who acts: door, Ali · What happens: open, say · To what, where: saying · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Ali), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 saying | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 saying | nmod:poss |
| 6 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sesame | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sesame | punct |
| 9 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Sesame | amod |
| 10 | Sesame | sesame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | appos |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sesame | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sesame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door | Ali's saying | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saying=Location | ||||
| 2 | say | Ali | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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