Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 137

He stepped backwards into his bed-room, locked the door behind him, and left Mr. George standing alone.

Who acts: George · What happens: step, lock, leave, stand · To what, where: bed room, door, George

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 stepped	nsubj
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 stepped	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 room	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 room	nmod:poss
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bed	punct
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 locked	punct
10	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stepped	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 locked	obj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 locked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 locked	conj
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 George	nmod:desc
19	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 left	obj
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 left	advcl
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 standing	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step	past	George		George's bed room	backwards property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
2	lock	past		the door		behind George	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	leave	past		George Mr.			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent george=Theme
4	stand	gerund				alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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