The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 88
Suddenly the door burst open, and in came her Destiny.
Who acts: door · What happens: burst, come · To what, where: Destiny
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 burst | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 burst | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 came | case |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burst | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Destiny | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the door | open, suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the door not said here | door's Destiny | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location destiny=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 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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