The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 53
As he spoke a little door opened in the trunk of the orange tree, in rushed the Queen, only just in time, and the door shut with a bang in the faces of the lions.
Who acts: Dwarf, little door · What happens: speak, open, rush · To what, where: trunk, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Dwarf, little door), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 door | amod |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trunk | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trunk | det |
| 10 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trunk | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rushed | punct |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 rushed | mark |
| 17 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 opened | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 rushed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 time | punct |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 time | advmod |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 time | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Queen | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shut | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shut | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoke | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 bang | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bang | det |
| 32 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shut | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 faces | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 faces | det |
| 35 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shut | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 lions | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 lions | det |
| 38 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 faces | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Dwarf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | open | past | a little door | the trunk of the orange tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trunk=Location | ||||
| 3 | rush | participle | the Queen | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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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