The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 63
Next morning, when the squire rose and opened his front door, the fish came tumbling into the porch, and the whole yard was crammed full of them.
Who acts: squire, fish · What happens: rise, open, come, tumble, cram · To what, where: front door, porch, whole yard
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, fish), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 rose | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 squire | det |
| 6 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opened | cc |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 door | nmod:poss |
| 11 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 door | amod |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 17 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 came | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 porch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 porch | det |
| 20 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tumbling | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 crammed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 crammed | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 yard | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 yard | amod |
| 25 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crammed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 crammed | aux:pass |
| 27 | crammed | cram | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 came | conj |
| 28 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 crammed | xcomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 full | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the squire | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the squire not said here | squire's front door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the fish | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tumble | gerund | the fish not said here | the porch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into porch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | cram | past · passive | the whole yard | full property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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