The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 97
The open window, through which the blue sky is seen, forms an effective panel for the portrait of the young prince.
Who acts: open window · What happens: see, form, portray · To what, where: blue sky, open window, effective panel, young prince
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (open window), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 | 3 window | det |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 window | amod |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forms | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seen | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sky | amod |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 window | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 window | punct |
| 13 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 panel | det |
| 15 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 panel | amod |
| 16 | panel | panel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forms | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 portrait | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 portrait | det |
| 19 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 panel | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prince | amod |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 portrait | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | the blue sky | the open window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | form | present | the open window | a effective panel | for the portrait of the young prince | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent panel=Result for portrait=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | portray | the young prince | nom portrait «communication 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 grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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