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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 108

The door was opened and he entered, but paused when he beheld an old man lying on a bench by the fire, while seated opposite him was a maiden combing out the locks of her golden hair with a comb of silver.

Who acts: blessing, old man, maiden · What happens: open, enter, pause, behold, lie, seat · To what, where: door, old man, bench, locks

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, old man, maiden), 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

detnsubj:passaux:passccnsubjconjpunctccconjadvmodnsubjadvcldetamodobjaclcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctmarkconjcaseoblconjdetnsubjaclcompound:prtdetobjcasenmod:possamodnmodcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctrootTheDETdoorNOUNwasAUXopenedVERBandCCONJhePRONenteredVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJpausedVERBwhenADVhePRONbeheldVERBanDEToldADJmanNOUNlyingVERBonADPaDETbenchNOUNbyADPtheDETfireNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJseatedVERBoppositeADPhimPRONwasVERBaDETmaidenNOUNcombingVERBoutADPtheDETlocksNOUNofADPherPRONgoldenADJhairNOUNwithADPaDETcombNOUNofADPsilverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 doordet
2doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing4 openednsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 openedaux:pass
4openedopenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5andandCCONJ_7 enteredcc
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 enterednsubj
7enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 openedconj
8,,PUNCT_10 pausedpunct
9butbutCCONJ_10 pausedcc
10pausedpauseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 openedconj
11whenwhenADVPronType=Int13 beheldadvmod
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 beheldnsubj
13beheldbeholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 pausedadvcl
14anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 mandet
15oldoldADJDegree=Pos16 manamod
16manmanNOUNNumber=Sing13 beheldobj
17lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger16 manacl
18ononADP_20 benchcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 benchdet
20benchbenchNOUNNumber=Sing17 lyingobl
21bybyADP_23 firecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 firedet
23firefireNOUNNumber=Sing17 lyingobl
24,,PUNCT_26 seatedpunct
25whilewhileSCONJ_26 seatedmark
26seatedseatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 beheldconj
27oppositeoppositeADP_28 himcase
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 seatedobl
29wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 pausedconj
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 maidendet
31maidenmaidenNOUNNumber=Sing29 wasnsubj
32combingcombVERBVerbForm=Ger31 maidenacl
33outoutADP_32 combingcompound:prt
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 locksdet
35lockslockNOUNNumber=Plur32 combingobj
36ofofADP_39 haircase
37herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 hairnmod:poss
38goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos39 hairamod
39hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing35 locksnmod
40withwithADP_42 combcase
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 combdet
42combcombNOUNNumber=Sing39 hairnmod
43ofofADP_44 silvercase
44silversilverNOUNNumber=Sing42 combnmod
45..PUNCT_4 openedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1openpast · passivethe doorvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2enterpastblessingvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3pausepastvn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4beholdpastblessinga old manvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5liegerunda old man not said herea benchby the firevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
6seatparticipleblessing not said hereopposite blessingvn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
7bepasta maidenvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8comb outgerunda maiden not said herethe locks of maiden's golden hair with a comb of silvervn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=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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