The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 40
In their excitement they burst open the door, and seizing the skin they threw it into the fire.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: burst, open, seize, throw, excite · To what, where: excitement, door, skin, fire
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 excitement | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 excitement | nmod:poss |
| 3 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burst | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burst | nsubj |
| 5 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 burst | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seizing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seizing | cc |
| 11 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 burst | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seizing | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | nsubj |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 skin | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | eyes = eye | eyes's excitement | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | eyes = eye not said here | the skin | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | eyes = eye | skin | into the fire result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result | |||
| 5 | excite | eyes = eye | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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