English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 70
And then the folding-doors of the hall were burst open, and the King of Elfland rushed in.
Who acts: King · What happens: burst, rush in · To what, where: folding doors
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 burst | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 burst | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doors | det |
| 4 | folding | folding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doors | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 folding | punct |
| 6 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doors | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 burst | aux:pass |
| 11 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 burst | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rushed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rushed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Elfland | case |
| 18 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | nmod |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 burst | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 rushed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past · passive | the folding doors of the hall | then | open property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | rush in | past | the King of Elfland | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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