The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 100

Stealing on tip- toe from the room, he knocked at the next door, which was opened by Eglantine, who thought it was the old woman bearing their supper.

Who acts: Becasigue, Eglantine, room, old woman · What happens: steal, knock, open, think, be, bear · To what, where: tip toe, next door, old woman, supper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becasigue, Eglantine, room, old woman), 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	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 knocked	advcl
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 toe	case
3	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toe	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tip	punct
5	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stealing	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stealing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stealing	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knocked	nsubj
11	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knocked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 opened	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 opened	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 opened	aux:pass
19	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 door	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 Eglantine	case
21	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 opened	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Eglantine	advcl:relcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 woman	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 woman	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	ccomp
30	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 woman	acl
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 supper	nmod:poss
32	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bearing	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund	Becasigue not said here		tip toe	from the room	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Location
2	knock	past	Becasigue			at the next door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	open	past · passive	Eglantine	the next door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	Eglantine				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	room	the old woman			tree rules
6	bear	gerund	the old woman not said here	prince's supper			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient

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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