The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 47

Even the door only hung upon one hinge, and as the only light in the room sprang from a tiny fire, the duckling edged himself cautiously in, and lay down under a chair close to the broken door, from which he could get out if necessary.

Who acts: duckling, dog · What happens: hang, spring, edge, lay down, get out · To what, where: door, one hinge, tiny fire, dog, chair

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duckling, dog), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	3 door	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 hung	advmod
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 hinge	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hinge	nummod
8	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sprang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sprang	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 light	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 light	det
13	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 light	nmod
18	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 fire	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fire	det
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fire	amod
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprang	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 edged	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 duckling	det
25	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edged	nsubj
26	edged	edge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 edged	obj
28	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	29 in	advmod
29	in	in	ADV	_	26 edged	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lay	cc
32	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hung	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 lay	compound:prt
34	under	under	ADP	_	36 chair	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 chair	det
36	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
37	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 chair	amod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 door	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 door	det
40	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 door	amod
41	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 close	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 get	punct
43	from	from	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 get	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 get	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 get	aux
47	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 lay	conj
48	out	out	ADV	_	47 get	advmod
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 necessary	mark
50	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 get	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past		the door	one hinge		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hinge=Location
2	spring	past			a tiny fire	as the only light in the room	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fire=Trajectory
3	edge	past	the duckling	dog			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination
4	lay down	infinitive			a chair		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under chair=Destination
5	get out	could	dog			necessary, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «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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