The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 51
With that the little man shoved him in at the door, and locked it.
Who acts: little man · What happens: shove in, lock · To what, where: book, door
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 shoved | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoved | nsubj |
| 6 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shoved | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shoved | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoved | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 locked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 locked | cc |
| 14 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shoved | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 locked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shoved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove in | past | the little man | book | the door | with that | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme at door=Destination | ||
| 2 | lock | past | the little man not said here | door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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