The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 66

But, one day, as he was coming down stairs, he was surprised to see a stranger enter the hall, looking about as if the house belonged to him.

Who acts: son, one day, stranger, house · What happens: come down, be, see, enter, look, belong · To what, where: stairs, stranger, hall, son

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, one day, stranger, house), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 surprised	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surprised	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coming	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 coming	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 coming	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 coming	aux
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 day	acl
10	down	down	ADP	_	11 stairs	case
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 coming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 surprised	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 surprised	cop
15	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 surprised	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stranger	det
19	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hall	det
22	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 enter	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looking	punct
24	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 see	advcl
25	about	about	ADV	_	24 looking	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 belonged	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 belonged	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 belonged	nsubj
30	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 looking	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 belonged	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come down	past · progressive	son	stairs			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme
2	is	past	one day			surprised property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	one day not said here	a stranger			tree rules
4	enter	infinitive	a stranger not said here	the hall			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
5	look	gerund	one day not said here			about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	belong	past	the house		son		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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