The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 32
The carriage stopped when it reached him, and the footmen sprang down and opened the door for him.
Who acts: carriage, footmen · What happens: stop, reach, spring down, open · To what, where: Prince, door
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage, footmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 footmen | det |
| 11 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sprang | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 opened | cc |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sprang | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the carriage | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | carriage | Prince | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring down | past | the footmen | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | open | past | the footmen not said here | the door | for Prince | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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 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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