Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 28
"Open, open, wood and trees and beam!" they cried to the door.
Who acts: Open wood · What happens: cry · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Open wood), 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 | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 2 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wood | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Open | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wood | punct |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 trees | cc |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wood | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beam | cc |
| 10 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wood | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 beam | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beam | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Open wood and trees and beam | the door | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to door=Recipient |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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