The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 46
She drew a rusty old hook from her pocket and stuck it into a little hole in the door, which suddenly flew open.
Who acts: woman, little hole · What happens: draw, stick, fly · To what, where: rusty old hook, pocket, hook, little hole
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, little hole), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hook | det |
| 4 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hook | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hook | amod |
| 6 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl | ||
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stuck | cc |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stuck | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 hole | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hole | amod |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hole | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 flew | nsubj |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hole | acl:relcl |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flew | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | woman | a rusty old hook | woman's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hook=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stick | past | woman not said here | hook | a little hole in the door | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into hole=Destination | |||
| 3 | fly | past | a little hole in the door | open, suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 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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