The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 64

He held the magic root to the keyhole, and to his astonishment heard all the seven locks creaking and turning, the door flew suddenly wide open, and his greedy wife’s store of gold pieces lay before his eyes.

Who acts: Peter, seven locks, door, gold pieces · What happens: hold, hear, creak, turn, fly, lay · To what, where: magic root, seven locks, store, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, seven locks, door, gold pieces), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 root	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 root	amod
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 keyhole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 keyhole	det
8	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 astonishment	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 astonishment	nmod:poss
13	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obl
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	parataxis
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 locks	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 locks	det
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 locks	nummod
18	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heard	obj
19	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 locks	acl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turning	cc
21	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 creaking	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	nsubj
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
26	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	28 open	advmod
27	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 open	advmod
28	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flew	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 store	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 store	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
32	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wife	amod
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 store	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 wife	case
35	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 pieces	case
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pieces	compound
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lay	nsubj
39	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 store	acl:relcl
40	before	before	ADP	_	42 eyes	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lay	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Peter	the magic root		to the keyhole	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
2	hear	past		all seven locks		to Peter's astonishment	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lock=Stimulus
3	creak	gerund	all seven locks not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	gerund	all seven locks not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	fly	past	the door			open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lay	present	gold pieces	Peter's greedy wife's store not said here	Peter's eyes		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme before eye=Destination
7	astonish		Peter				nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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