The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

Right in front of her stood an oven, and through its open door she could see a pile of white loaves.

Who acts: front, clematis · What happens: stand, see · To what, where: oven, pile, open door

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (front, clematis), 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	Right	right	ADV	_	3 front	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 front	nmod
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 oven	det
8	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 door	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 door	nmod:poss
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 door	amod
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stood	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pile	det
19	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 loaves	case
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 loaves	amod
22	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pile	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	front of clematis	a oven					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oven=Stimulus
2	see	could	clematis	a pile of white loaves		front's open door			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pile=Stimulus

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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