English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 169
Now this was the door of Foxy-woxy's cave.
Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 door | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 door | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 door | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 7 | Foxy | Foxy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 woxy | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Foxy | punct |
| 9 | woxy | woxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cave | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 woxy | case |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 door | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the door | now | of Foxy woxy's cave | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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