The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 51

It was only next morning, when it grew light, that they noticed their visitor, who stood trembling before them, with his eye on the door ready to escape at any moment.

Who acts: cat, hens, visitor · What happens: be, grow, notice, stand, tremble, escape · To what, where: next morning, door · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cat, hens, visitor), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 morning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 morning	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 morning	advmod
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 morning	amod
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grew	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 morning	parataxis
10	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noticed	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 noticed	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 noticed	nsubj
14	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grew	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 visitor	nmod:poss
16	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 noticed	ccomp
20	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stood	xcomp
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 trembling	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eye	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 eye	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eye	nmod:poss
26	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 door	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stood	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 escape	mark
32	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 moment	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 moment	det
35	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 escape	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cat	next morning				tree rules
2	grow	past	cat				light property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	notice	past	hens = hen					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stand	past	hens's visitor		the door		with visitor's eye	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	tremble	gerund	hens's visitor not said here			before hens = hen		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
6	escape	to-infinitive	hens's visitor not said here			moment		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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