The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 22

It was while he was absent that Eglantine and the white doe entered the hut, and having, of course, no idea that in the very next room was the man whose childish impatience had been the cause of all their troubles.

Who acts: room, Eglantine, idea, childish impatience, prince · What happens: be, enter, have, trouble · To what, where: hut, man, next room, cause

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 (room, Eglantine, idea, childish impatience), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 absent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 absent	cop
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 absent	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 absent	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 absent	cop
6	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 entered	mark
8	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 entered	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 doe	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 doe	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 doe	amod
12	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Eglantine	conj
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 absent	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 having	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 having	cc
18	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 absent	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 course	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 course	case
21	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 having	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 idea	punct
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 idea	det
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 absent	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 man	mark
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 room	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 next	advmod
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 room	amod
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	obl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 man	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 idea	acl
34	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	36 impatience	nmod:poss
35	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 impatience	amod
36	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cause	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 cause	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 cause	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cause	det
40	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 man	acl:relcl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 troubles	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 troubles	det:predet
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 troubles	nmod:poss
44	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 cause	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 absent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	room			absent property	tree rules
2	enter	past	Eglantine and the white doe	the hut			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
3	have	gerund	room not said here			of course	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	no idea not said here	the man	the next room		tree rules
5	is a	past · perfect	the cause's childish impatience	the cause		of prince's troubles	tree rules
6	trouble		prince				nom trouble «cognition 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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