The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 114
‘But here is one, and there is another!’ they all exclaimed; wherever they looked there was a cross on the door.
Who acts: one, doors, cross · What happens: be, exclaim, look · To what, where: doors
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, doors, cross), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 here | cc |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 here | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 is | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 here | fixed |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 exclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 17 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 looked | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 looked | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cross | det |
| 23 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 door | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cross | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | one | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | participle · passive | doors = door | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | past | doors = door | wherever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | past | a cross on the door | there | 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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