The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 38
He was delighted at his success, touched the great gate with the flower, and it sprung open.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: be, touch, spring · To what, where: success, great gate, flower
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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 | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 success | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 success | nmod:poss |
| 6 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 touched | punct |
| 8 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gate | amod |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 touched | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sprung | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sprung | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 touched | conj |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sprung | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Joringel | Joringel's success | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | touch | past | the great gate | with the flower | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gate=Experiencer with flower=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | spring | participle · passive | flower | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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