The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 37
Then he stands up on end, puts his two fore-paws on the latch and the door opens.
Who acts: story, door · What happens: stand up, put, open · To what, where: end, two fore paws, latch
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, door), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stands | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stands | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 puts | punct |
| 8 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stands | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paws | nmod:poss |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 paws | nummod |
| 11 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paws | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fore | punct |
| 13 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 puts | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 latch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 latch | det |
| 16 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puts | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 opens | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opens | nsubj |
| 20 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 puts | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | present | story | on end; then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | ||||
| 2 | put | present | story not said here | story's two fore paws | the latch | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on latch=Destination | |||
| 3 | open | present | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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