The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 76

The fairies heard the knock, but were afraid to open till they had peeped from an upper window to see that it was no giant or ogre who could do them harm.

Who acts: fairies, knock, ogre · What happens: hear, be, open, peep, see, do · To what, where: knock, giant, fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, knock, ogre), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fairies	det
2	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knock	det
5	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 afraid	cc
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 open	mark
11	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 afraid	xcomp
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 peeped	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 peeped	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 peeped	aux
15	peeped	peep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 open	ccomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 window	det
18	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 window	amod
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peeped	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 peeped	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 giant	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 giant	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 giant	cop
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 giant	det
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	ccomp
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 ogre	cc
28	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 giant	conj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 do	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ogre	acl:relcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	obj
33	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 do	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the fairies	the knock		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus
2	is	past	the fairies not said here		afraid property	tree rules
3	open	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here			tree rules
4	peep	past · perfect	fairies = fairy		from a upper window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	knock	no giant or ogre		tree rules
7	do	could	ogre	fairies = fairy		tree rules
8	harm	infinitive	ogre not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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