The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 115

At last he did no work at all, but just sat and wondered what was behind the locked door, till he determined to go and look for himself.

Who acts: room · What happens: do, sit, wonder, lock, be, determine · To what, where: work, last, locked door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 work	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wondered	cc
14	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 door	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 door	cop
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
19	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 door	amod
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wondered	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 determined	punct
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 determined	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 determined	nsubj
24	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 determined	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 look	cc
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 look	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	room	no work	last	at all	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	sit	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask	past					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	lock	participle					vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is	past			the locked door		tree rules
6	determine	past	room				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go	to-infinitive	room not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	look	infinitive	room not said here			for room	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for himself=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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