English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 5
“And then--and then I opened the door, and the room was filled with bodies and skeletons of poor dead women, all stained with their blood.”
Who acts: Mr. Fox · What happens: open, fill, stain · To what, where: door, room, all
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), 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 | _ | 8 opened | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 then | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 opened | advmod |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 opened | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 opened | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 filled | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | aux:pass |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 opened | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bodies | case |
| 18 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 filled | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 skeletons | cc |
| 20 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bodies | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 women | case |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 women | amod |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 women | amod |
| 24 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 skeletons | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stained | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 stained | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 filled | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 blood | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 blood | nmod:poss |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stained | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | past | Mr. Fox = fox | the door | then; then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill in a quote | past · passive | the room | with bodies and skeletons of poor dead women | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with body=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | stain in a quote | participle · passive | all | with women's blood | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=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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