The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 124
And in the morning when they opened the door there he lay sound and safe, singing cheerfully to himself.
Who acts: walls, Simpleton · What happens: open, lie, sing · To what, where: door, sound, Simpleton
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, Simpleton), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 opened | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 morning | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 opened | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 safe | cc |
| 15 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sound | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 singing | punct |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | advcl |
| 18 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 17 singing | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 singing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | walls = wall | the door | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | past | Simpleton | sound | morning | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Simpleton not said here | Simpleton | cheerfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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