The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 114

This raised their spirits for a moment; but the door was shut, and the hut seemed empty, and so great was their disappointment that they almost cried.

Who acts: This, door, hut, children · What happens: raise, be, seem, cry · To what, where: spirits, great disappointment

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, door, hut, children), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spirits	nmod:poss
4	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 raised	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 shut	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 shut	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shut	cop
13	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raised	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hut	det
17	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
19	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 great	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 great	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 great	advmod
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 disappointment	amod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 disappointment	cop
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 disappointment	nmod:poss
26	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 cried	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cried	nsubj
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 cried	advmod
30	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	This	children's spirits	moment		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme
2	is	past	the door			shut property	tree rules
3	seem	past	the hut			empty property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		children's great disappointment			tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past	children = child			almost property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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