The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 9

As before, the door stood open, and he went on till he had reached the hall of gold, and there he took off his jacket and tied the sleeves together so that it might make a kind of bag.

Who acts: door, jacket · What happens: stand, go on, reach, take off, tie, make · To what, where: hall, jacket, sleeves, kind

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, jacket), 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	ADP	_	2 before	case
2	before	before	ADV	_	6 stood	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stood	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	conj
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 reached	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reached	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reached	aux
16	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hall	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 took	expl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stood	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 took	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 jacket	nmod:poss
28	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tied	cc
30	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sleeves	det
32	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tied	obj
33	together	together	ADV	_	30 tied	advmod
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 make	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tied	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 kind	det
40	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 bag	case
42	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kind	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the door			open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go on	past	door				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	past · perfect	door	the hall of gold			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hall=Theme
4	take off	past	door	Jack's jacket	there		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme
5	tie	past	door not said here	the sleeves		together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleeve=Patient
6	make	might	jacket	a kind of bag			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material kind=Product

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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