English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold., sentence 2
“And when I came to the doorway over it was written:
Who acts: Mr. Fox · What happens: come, write · To what, where: doorway
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Fox), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 doorway | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doorway | det |
| 8 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 12 written | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 written | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 written | aux:pass |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox | the doorway | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to doorway=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | write in a quote | past · passive | doorway | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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