The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 66

Meanwhile the girl had reached home crosser than ever; but as soon as her mother heard her lift the latch of the door she ran out to hear her adventures. '

Who acts: mother, latch, secret · What happens: reach, hear, lift, run out, adventure · To what, where: girl, secret, adventures

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, latch, secret), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 reached	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
5	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	7 crosser	advmod
7	crosser	cross	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 reached	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 crosser	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lift	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 lift	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 lift	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 heard	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lift	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obj
19	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 latch	det
21	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ran	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 latch	nmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ran	nsubj
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lift	parataxis
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 ran	compound:prt
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hear	mark
29	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ran	advcl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 adventures	nmod:poss
31	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hear	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lift	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect · passive		the girl	cross, meanwhile property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	hear	past	secret's mother	secret		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	lift	infinitive			soon property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	run out	past	the latch of the door			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	to-infinitive	the latch of the door not said here	secret's adventures		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer adventure=Stimulus
6	adventure		secret			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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: «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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