The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 36
Its doors are of iron, and round it runs a deep moat, spanned by no bridge.
Who acts: doors, door · What happens: be, run, span · To what, where: deep moat
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 doors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 iron | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 iron | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 iron | case |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spanned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spanned | cc |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 runs | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 runs | nsubj |
| 10 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spanned | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moat | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moat | amod |
| 13 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 runs | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 runs | punct |
| 15 | spanned | span | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 iron | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bridge | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 bridge | det |
| 18 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spanned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 iron | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | old's doors | of iron | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | present | door | a deep moat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location moat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | span | participle | old's doors not said here | by no bridge | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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