The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 105
He saw a door which stood ajar, and through which he distinctly heard sighs, mingled with sobs.
Who acts: sound, door · What happens: see, stand, hear, mingle · To what, where: door, sighs
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, door), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 door | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ajar | ajar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 heard | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 14 heard | advmod |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mingled | punct |
| 17 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 heard | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sobs | case |
| 19 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mingled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | sound | a door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a door | ajar property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | sound | sighs | distinctly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sigh=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | mingle | participle | sound not said here | with sobs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sob=Co-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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