The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 22
The window-shutters were closed, but the light came through the chinks.
Who acts: light · What happens: close, come · To what, where: window shutters, chinks
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shutters | det |
| 2 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shutters | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 window | punct |
| 4 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 closed | aux:pass |
| 6 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 light | det |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 closed | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 chinks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chinks | det |
| 14 | chinks | chink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · passive | the window shutters | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the light | the chinks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through chink=Initial_Location |
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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