The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 90
She walked boldly up to the door and entered the room as if the whole place belonged to her, and quite frightened the poor girl, who was startled at the sight of her old enemy.
Who acts: woman, whole place · What happens: walk, enter, belong, frighten, startle, sight · To what, where: door, room, woman, poor girl, sight, old enemy
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, whole place), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 entered | cc |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 belonged | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 belonged | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belonged | nsubj |
| 17 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entered | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 belonged | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 frightened | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 frightened | cc |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 frightened | advmod |
| 23 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girl | amod |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 frightened | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 startled | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 startled | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 startled | aux:pass |
| 30 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 girl | acl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 sight | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sight | det |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 startled | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 enemy | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 enemy | amod |
| 37 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sight | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | woman | the door | boldly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up door=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | enter | past | woman not said here | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | the whole place | woman | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | frighten | past | the poor girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | startle | past · passive | the poor girl | the sight of woman's old enemy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | sight | woman's old enemy | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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