The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 53
The door opened, and he ran in and rested all night on his soft mossy bed.
Who acts: door · What happens: open, run, rest · To what, where: soft mossy bed
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rested | cc |
| 10 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bed | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bed | amod |
| 16 | mossy | mossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bed | amod |
| 17 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rested | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rest | past | door not said here | door's soft mossy bed | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Location |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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