The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 87

The door of the pit was hardly closed when the bear rushed at the shepherd; but when it saw his eyes it was so frightened that it was ready to eat itself.

Who acts: bear, it · What happens: close, rush, see, be, eat · To what, where: door, eyes, bear

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, it), 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 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 closed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pit	det
5	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 door	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 closed	aux:pass
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 closed	advmod
8	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 rushed	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rushed	nsubj
12	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 closed	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 shepherd	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shepherd	det
15	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rushed	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 closed	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saw	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 frightened	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 frightened	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 frightened	advmod
26	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 saw	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ready	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ready	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	cop
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 frightened	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 eat	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive		the door of the pit	hardly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	rush	past	the bear		at the shepherd	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at shepherd=Trajectory
3	see	past	bear	shepherd's eyes		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
4	is	past	bear		frightened property	tree rules
5	is	past	it		ready property	tree rules
6	eat	to-infinitive		bear		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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: «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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