The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 24

The Sodnos heard it below, and posted themselves, one at the big door and one at the little door at the back, for they did not know what their enemy would come out at.

Who acts: Sodnos, arms · What happens: hear, post, not know, come out · To what, where: yawn, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sodnos, arms), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sodnos	det
2	Sodnos	Sodnos	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	below	below	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 posted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 posted	cc
8	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 posted	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 posted	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 one	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 one	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 door	amod
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 back	det
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 know	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 know	advmod
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	parataxis
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 come	nsubj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 enemy	nmod:poss
33	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 know	ccomp
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	35 come	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Sodnos	yawn	below property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	post	past	the Sodnos not said here	arms = arm		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
3	not know	past · do-support	arms = arm			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come out	would			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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