The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 181
The ladder was complete, and with her child on her arm she entered the door of the house.
Who acts: ladder, idea · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: door
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 (ladder, idea), 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 ladder | det |
| 2 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 complete | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 complete | cop |
| 4 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 entered | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 child | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 child | nmod:poss |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 arm | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arm | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 child | nmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 complete | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 complete | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ladder | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | idea | the door of the house | with idea's child on idea's arm | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=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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