The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 48
‘Press your finger on the latch, then push and the door opens.’
Who acts: you, door · What happens: press, push, open · To what, where: finger, 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 (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Press | punct |
| 2 | Press | press | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 finger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Press | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 latch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 latch | det |
| 7 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Press | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 push | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 push | advmod |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Press | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opens | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opens | nsubj |
| 14 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 push | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Press | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Press | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | imperative | you not said here | your finger | the latch | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 2 | push | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 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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