The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 48
It was evening, and the door was locked, but he knew the way down the chimney.
Who acts: house, evening, property · What happens: be, lock, know · To what, where: evening, door, way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, evening, property), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 evening | cop |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 locked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 locked | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 locked | aux:pass |
| 9 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 evening | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 knew | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 locked | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 chimney | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chimney | det |
| 18 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | house | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lock | past · passive | evening not said here | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | past | property | the way | down the chimney | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
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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