The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 174
As soon as one step was finished she stood upon it and made the next one, and then the next, till she was close to the door.
Who acts: door · What happens: finish, stand, make, be · To what, where: one step, ladder, next one
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 (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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 finished | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 step | nummod |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | aux:pass |
| 7 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soon | advcl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 next | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 next | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 next | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 next | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 close | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 close | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 close | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 close | cop |
| 26 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 door | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 close | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | one step | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | door | ladder | soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location | |||
| 3 | make | past | door not said here | the next one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | door | to the door; close property | tree rules |
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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