The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 55
The tiny door swung back, and a soft crimson light gleamed over the whole cabinet.
Who acts: tiny door · What happens: swing back, gleam · To what, where: soft crimson light, whole cabinet
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 door | amod |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 light | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 light | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 light | det |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 light | amod |
| 10 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 light | compound |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obl |
| 12 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 light | acl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 cabinet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cabinet | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cabinet | amod |
| 16 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gleamed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing back | participle | the tiny door | a soft crimson light | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | gleam | participle | a soft crimson light not said here | the whole cabinet | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cabinet=Location |
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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