The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 75

So the wanderer turned his steps to the loft, which was at the top of the storehouse, and there he found the wooden chest, so old that it looked as if it were dropping to pieces.

Who acts: wanderer, loft, it, chest · What happens: turn, be, find, look, drop, step · To what, where: steps, loft, top, wooden chest, pieces

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 (wanderer, loft, it, chest), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wanderer	det
3	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 steps	nmod:poss
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 loft	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 loft	det
9	loft	loft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 top	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 top	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 top	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loft	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 storehouse	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 storehouse	det
18	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 top	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 found	expl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chest	det
25	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chest	amod
26	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 old	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 old	advmod
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 found	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 looked	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 looked	nsubj
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 old	advcl
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 dropping	mark
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 dropping	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dropping	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dropping	aux
37	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 looked	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 pieces	case
39	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 dropping	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the wanderer	wanderer's steps	the loft		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to loft=Trajectory
2	is	past	the loft		the top	of the storehouse	tree rules
3	find	past	wanderer	the wooden chest	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Topic
4	look	past	it				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	drop	past · progressive	chest		pieces		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to piece=Trajectory
6	step		wanderer				nom step «act 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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