The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 15
Then he called ‘Open, Sartara Martara of the earth!’ and the door opened of itself.
Who acts: king, Open · What happens: call, open · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Open), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Open | punct |
| 5 | Open | Open | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Martara | punct |
| 7 | Sartara | Sartara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Martara | compound |
| 8 | Martara | Martara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Open | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Martara | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Martara | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Martara | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 door | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Open | conj |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 itself | case |
| 19 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 opened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | king | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Open and the door | of door | 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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