The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 34
This next morning also he peeped in at the door, but what he saw there surprised him so much that he shut the door in a hurry, and hastened to the king and queen, who were waiting for his report.
Who acts: sun, queen · What happens: peep in, see, shut, hasten, wait, report · To what, where: door, hurry
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, queen), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peeped | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 peeped | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 peeped | nsubj |
| 6 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 peeped | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peeped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 saw | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 peeped | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 saw | advmod |
| 17 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 surprised | nsubj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 shut | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 shut | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shut | nsubj |
| 23 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shut | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hurry | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hurry | det |
| 28 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shut | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hastened | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hastened | cc |
| 31 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 peeped | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 king | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hastened | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 queen | cc |
| 36 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 king | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 waiting | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 waiting | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 waiting | aux |
| 40 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 queen | acl:relcl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 report | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 report | nmod:poss |
| 43 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 waiting | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep in | past | sun | morning | at the door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | sun | there | surprised property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | shut | past | sun | the door | a hurry | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 4 | hasten | participle | sun not said here | to the king and queen result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to king=Result | ||||
| 5 | wait | past · progressive | queen | for sun's report | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | report | sun | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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