The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 41
‘Open the door!’ cried the King, but the youth did not hear.
Who acts: King, youth · What happens: open, cry, not hear · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, youth), 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 Open | punct |
| 2 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Open | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hear | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hear | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hear | advmod |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not hear | past · do-support | the youth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=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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