The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 30
The wooden shutters over the windows were not shut at the top, and he could just see into the room.
Who acts: Klaus · What happens: not shut, see · To what, where: wooden shutters, top, room
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 (Klaus), 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 | 3 shutters | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shutters | amod |
| 3 | shutters | shutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 windows | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 windows | det |
| 6 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shutters | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shut | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 shut | advmod |
| 9 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shut | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shut | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shut | past · passive | the wooden shutters over the windows | the top | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | could | Klaus | the room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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