The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 74
Then the door opened and the King walked in, and there stood the loveliest maiden he had ever seen.
Who acts: door, King · What happens: open, walk in, stand, see · To what, where: loveliest maiden
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, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 walked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stood | advmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 15 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 seen | advmod |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk in | past | the King | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the door not said here | the loveliest maiden | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | King | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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