The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 81
Suddenly the door opened, and an ancient dame leaning on a staff hobbled out.
Who acts: door, ancient dame · What happens: open, lean, hobble out · To what, where: staff
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, ancient dame), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hobbled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hobbled | cc |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dame | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dame | amod |
| 9 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hobbled | nsubj |
| 10 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 dame | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 staff | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 staff | det |
| 13 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaning | obl |
| 14 | hobbled | hobble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 hobbled | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | a ancient dame not said here | a staff | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on staff=Location | ||||
| 3 | hobble out | participle | a ancient dame | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: 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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