The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 112
The girl stepped into the dark entrance, and tapped at the door of the room.
Who acts: girl · What happens: step, tap · To what, where: dark entrance
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 entrance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 entrance | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 entrance | amod |
| 7 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tapped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tapped | cc |
| 10 | tapped | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stepped | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tapped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the girl | the dark entrance | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into entrance=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tap | past | the girl not said here | at the door of the room | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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