The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 14
But the picture was placed so that if the door opened you gazed straight upon it, and it was so beautifully painted that you imagined it lived and moved, and that it was the most lovable and beautiful thing in the whole world.
Who acts: door, you · What happens: place, open, gaze, paint, imagine, live · To what, where: picture, door, lovable thing, whole world
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 placed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 picture | det |
| 3 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 opened | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 gazed | nsubj |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | conj |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 it | advmod |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 painted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 painted | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 painted | aux:pass |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 beautifully | advmod |
| 22 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 23 painted | advmod |
| 23 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 placed | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 imagined | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 imagined | nsubj |
| 26 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 painted | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 imagined | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 moved | cc |
| 30 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lived | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 thing | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 thing | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 thing | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 thing | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thing | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 thing | det |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 38 lovable | advmod |
| 38 | lovable | lovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thing | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 beautiful | cc |
| 40 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lovable | conj |
| 41 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 world | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 world | det |
| 44 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 world | amod |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 thing | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the picture | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past | you | upon door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | paint | past · passive | door | beautifully property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 5 | imagine | past | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live | past | door | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | move | past | door not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | door | the lovable thing | the whole world | tree rules |
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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