The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 66

As they had done when the stepdaughter came home, the neighbours all hurried to see what was the matter; but they were too late.

Who acts: jewels, stepdaughter, neighbours · What happens: do, come, hurry, see, be

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewels, stepdaughter, neighbours), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 done	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 hurried	advcl
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stepdaughter	det
7	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 neighbours	det
12	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hurried	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 hurried	advmod
14	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hurried	xcomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 see	obj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 matter	det
20	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 late	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 late	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 late	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 late	cop
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 late	advmod
26	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hurried	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	jewels = jewel		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the stepdaughter	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hurry	past	the neighbours	all property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	is	past	jewels = jewel	late 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 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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