The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 54
As she spoke she suddenly saw a little door open, and the sunshine blazed into the dismal well.
Who acts: Graciosa, sunshine · What happens: speak, see, blaze · To what, where: little door, dismal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, sunshine), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blazed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blazed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sunshine | det |
| 14 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blazed | nsubj |
| 15 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 dismal | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dismal | det |
| 18 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blazed | obl |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 blazed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Graciosa | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Graciosa | a little door | open, suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | blaze | past | the sunshine | the dismal | well property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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