The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 37
Without recognising Iwanich, he opened the door when he knocked and gave him shelter for the night.
Who acts: Iwanich · What happens: recognise, open, knock, give, shelter · To what, where: Iwanich, 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 recognising | mark |
| 2 | recognising | recognise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 opened | advcl |
| 3 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 recognising | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognising | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knocked | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 knocked | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knocked | nsubj |
| 11 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knocked | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gave | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shelter | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | gerund | Iwanich not said here | Iwanich | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iwanich=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Iwanich | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | knock | past | Iwanich | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | give | past | Iwanich not said here | Iwanich | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shelter | infinitive | Iwanich not said here | night | vn exist-47.1 «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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