The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 51
And he got so angry that you might have thought that some one was actually standing at the door, tormenting him.
Who acts: man, you, one · What happens: get, think, stand, torment · To what, where: door, man
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | aux |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 angry | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 standing | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 standing | aux |
| 15 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 16 standing | advmod |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tormenting | punct |
| 21 | tormenting | torment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 standing | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tormenting | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | man | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | might · perfect | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | some one | the door | actually property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | |||
| 4 | torment | gerund | some one not said here | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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