The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 45
The door was opened in a minute or two by a frightful giantess, with one great eye in the middle of her forehead.
Who acts: frightful giantess · What happens: open · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frightful giantess), 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 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 minute | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 minute | det |
| 7 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 two | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 minute | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 giantess | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 giantess | det |
| 12 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 giantess | amod |
| 13 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eye | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eye | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 eye | nummod |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eye | amod |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 middle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 middle | det |
| 21 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eye | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forehead | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 24 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 middle | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | a frightful giantess | the door | minute | with one great eye in the middle of giantess's forehead | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with eye=Instrument |
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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