The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 11
In about an hour he reached the building, and opening the door he walked in.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: reach, open, walk in · To what, where: building, door
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 hour | advmod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 building | det |
| 8 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 11 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 walked | csubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opening | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Iwanich | the building | hour | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent building=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | gerund | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk in | past | Iwanich | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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