The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 111
And he went into his kingdom and shut the door in her face, and she had to stay outside singing--
Who acts: Swineherd, nightingale · What happens: go, shut, have, stay, sing · To what, where: kingdom, door, face
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swineherd, nightingale), 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 | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shut | cc |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 stay | mark |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 19 stay | advmod |
| 21 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 stay | advcl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Swineherd | Swineherd's kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | shut | infinitive | Swineherd not said here | the door | nightingale's face | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | past | nightingale | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | nightingale not said here | outside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | nightingale not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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