The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, sentence 2

She took then the little key, and opened it trembling; but could not at first see any thing plainly, because the windows were shut.

Who acts: unhappiness, windows · What happens: take, open, tremble, not see, be · To what, where: little key, key, thing

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, 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 (unhappiness, windows), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 key	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 key	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 key	amod
6	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 opened	cc
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 opened	obj
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 opened	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 first	case
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 thing	det
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	18 see	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shut	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 shut	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 windows	det
25	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shut	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shut	cop
27	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 see	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	unhappiness	the little key		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme
2	open	past	unhappiness not said here	key		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	tremble	gerund	unhappiness not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	could		any thing	first, plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	is	past	the windows		shut property	tree rules

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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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