The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 70
So at last, when sister found there was nothing else to be done, she opened the door with a heavy heart, and the Roe darted forth full of glee and health into the forest.
Who acts: sister, nothing, Roe · What happens: find, be, do, open, dart · To what, where: last, door, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sister, nothing, Roe), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 found | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 found | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 found | advmod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | ccomp |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 was | nsubj |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 nothing | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 nothing | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 22 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 heart | amod |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 darted | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 darted | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Roe | det |
| 27 | Roe | Roe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 darted | nsubj |
| 28 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 29 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 30 full | advmod |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 darted | xcomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 glee | case |
| 32 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 full | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 health | cc |
| 34 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 glee | conj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 forest | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 forest | det |
| 37 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 darted | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | sister | last | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | open | past | sister | the door | with a heavy heart | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with heart=Instrument | |||
| 5 | dart | past | the Roe | the forest | full property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination |
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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