Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 37

Instinctively the Clerk obeyed; with a few strokes of his wings he was out of the cage; but at the same moment the door, which was only ajar, and which led to the next room, began to creak, and supple and creeping came the large tomcat into the room, and began to pursue him.

Who acts: Clerk, Polly, door, supple · What happens: obey, be, lead, begin, creak, creep · To what, where: wings, cage, large tomcat, room, Polly

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clerk, Polly, door, supple), 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	Instinctively	instinctively	ADV	_	4 obeyed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Clerk	det
3	Clerk	Clerk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 obeyed	nsubj
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 strokes	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 strokes	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 strokes	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strokes	amod
9	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obeyed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 wings	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 strokes	nmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cage	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cage	cop
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 cage	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 cage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cage	det
18	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wings	acl:relcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 but	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 obeyed	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 moment	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moment	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moment	amod
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 but	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 door	det
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 moment	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ajar	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 ajar	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ajar	cop
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 ajar	advmod
31	ajar	ajar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 door	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 led	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 led	cc
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 led	nsubj
35	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 ajar	parataxis
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 room	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 room	det
38	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 room	amod
39	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 led	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 began	punct
41	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 led	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 creak	mark
43	creak	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 began	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 came	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 came	cc
46	supple	supple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 came	nsubj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 creeping	cc
48	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 supple	conj
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 began	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 tomcat	det
51	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tomcat	amod
52	tomcat	tomcat	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 came	obj
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 room	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 room	det
55	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 came	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 began	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 began	cc
58	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 began	parataxis
59	to	to	PART	_	60 pursue	mark
60	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 began	xcomp
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 pursue	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the Clerk			with a few strokes of Polly's wings; instinctively property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent but=Theme
2	is	past	Polly	Polly's wings not said here	the cage		tree rules
3	is	past	the door			ajar property	tree rules
4	lead	past				to the next room	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to room=Patient
5	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	creak	to-infinitive					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	creep	gerund	supple not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	past	supple	the large tomcat	the room		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tomcat=Theme
9	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	pursue	to-infinitive		Polly			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
11	stroke			Polly's wings			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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/pg1597/9/37/