The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 103

The door was so heavy, that it took Helga some time to open it, and Sigurd grew so impatient that he pushed it wide open and walked in.

Who acts: door, it, Sigurd · What happens: be, take, open, grow, push, walk in · To what, where: Helga, door

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, it, Sigurd), 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	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 took	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	parataxis
10	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 open	mark
14	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 open	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grew	cc
18	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 impatient	advmod
21	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grew	xcomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 pushed	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pushed	nsubj
24	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 impatient	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pushed	obj
26	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 open	advmod
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pushed	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 walked	cc
29	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pushed	conj
30	in	in	ADV	_	29 walked	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the door				heavy property	tree rules
2	take	past	it		Helga	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument helga=Destination
3	open	to-infinitive		door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	grow	past	Sigurd				impatient property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	push	past	Sigurd	door			open property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	walk in	past	Sigurd not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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