English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 2
“And then I went upstairs, and came to a gallery, at the end of which was a door, on which was written:
Who acts: Mr. Fox, end · What happens: go, come, be, write · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too 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, end), 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 went | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 gallery | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gallery | det |
| 12 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 end | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 door | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 door | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 written | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 written | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 written | aux:pass |
| 26 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox | then | upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox not said here | at the end | to a gallery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gallery=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the end | of a door | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write in a quote | past · passive | Mr. Fox = fox not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination |
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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