The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 136

But when she reached her own door it bounded in before her, and stopped in front of the fire, begging and praying to be allowed to stay.

Who acts: woman, door · What happens: reach, bound, stop, beg, pray, allow · To what, where: own door, front

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, door), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 bounded	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bounded	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 door	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 door	amod
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bounded	nsubj
9	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 her	case
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bounded	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stopped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stopped	cc
15	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bounded	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 front	case
17	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stopped	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 front	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begging	punct
22	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 stopped	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 praying	cc
24	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 begging	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 allowed	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 allowed	aux:pass
27	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 praying	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stay	mark
29	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 allowed	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	woman	woman's own door			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent door=Theme
2	bound	past	door			in woman	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in she=Trajectory
3	stop	past	door not said here		front of the fire		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
4	beg speech: request	gerund	door not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	pray	gerund	door not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	allow	to-infinitive · passive	door not said here				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
7	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	door not said here				vn exist-47.1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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