English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 9
She _was_ startled, for the door had been locked for hours.
What happens: startle, lock · To what, where: daughter, door
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 She | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 startled | aux:pass |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 startled | punct |
| 5 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 locked | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 locked | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 locked | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 locked | aux:pass |
| 12 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 startled | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hours | case |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 locked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 startled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | past · passive | daughter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lock | past · perfect · passive | the door | hour | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/9/