The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 60
Meantime, by the light of the night lamp, I saw the stranger enter my room, though the double doors had been securely locked.
Who acts: I, stranger · What happens: see, enter, lock, light · To what, where: Meantime, room, double doors, night lamp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stranger), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 light | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 light | det |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lamp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lamp | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lamp | compound |
| 9 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stranger | det |
| 14 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enter | nsubj |
| 15 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 room | nmod:poss |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enter | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 locked | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 locked | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 doors | det |
| 21 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 doors | amod |
| 22 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 locked | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 locked | aux:pass |
| 25 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 26 locked | advmod |
| 26 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | Meantime and the light of the night lamp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | enter | infinitive | the stranger | my room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lock | past · perfect · passive | the double doors | securely property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | light | the night lamp | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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