The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 62
But the keyhole was so large that it admitted plenty of air, and he could see everything that took place through it.
Who acts: keyhole, boy · What happens: be, admit, see, take · To what, where: plenty, everything, place, keyhole
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 (keyhole, boy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 large | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 keyhole | det |
| 3 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 large | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 large | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 large | advmod |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 admitted | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 admitted | nsubj |
| 9 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 large | advcl |
| 10 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 admitted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plenty | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 admitted | conj |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 everything | acl:relcl |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the keyhole | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past | keyhole | plenty of air | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | could | boy | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | past | place | keyhole | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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