The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 150
There was a little door in the railing in front of the cave, and here the Princess knocked and begged for admission.
Who acts: little door, Princess · What happens: be, knock, beg · To what, where: railing
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little door, Princess), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 railing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 railing | det |
| 8 | railing | railing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 railing | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 front | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knocked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knocked | cc |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 knocked | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 knocked | nsubj |
| 19 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 begged | cc |
| 21 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 knocked | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 admission | case |
| 23 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 begged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little door | the railing in front of the cave; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in railing=Location | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | the Princess | here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the Princess not said here | for admission | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for admission=Topic |
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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