The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 22
He had barely finished when in walked the old man, who stood astonished at the door.
Who acts: horse · What happens: finish, walk, astonish · To what, where: old man, door
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 3 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 4 finished | advmod |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 walked | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 walked | mark |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 astonished | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 astonished | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 astonished | aux:pass |
| 14 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 astonished | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | horse | barely property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | horse not said here | the old man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Agent | ||||
| 3 | astonish | past · passive | the old man | the door | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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