The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 106
He pushed open the door with his bill, but remained on the threshold, astonished at the sight which met his eyes.
Who acts: sound, sight · What happens: push, open, remain, astonish, meet, bill · To what, where: door, threshold, sight, eyes
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, sight), 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 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pushed | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bill | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bill | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remained | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 remained | cc |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pushed | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 threshold | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 threshold | det |
| 14 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remained | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 astonished | punct |
| 16 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 remained | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 astonished | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 met | nsubj |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sight | acl:relcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 met | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | sound | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | sound not said here | the door | with sound's bill | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with bill=Instrument | |||
| 3 | remain | participle | the threshold | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on threshold=Location | |||||
| 4 | astonish | participle | the sight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | meet | past | the sight | sound's eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | bill | sound | nom bill «communication 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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