The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 41

In the morning the first thing they both did was to run to the cupboard and unlock it, but when the door opened they started back, for, instead of the ball, there stood a handsome young man.

Who acts: girls, first thing, door · What happens: do, run, unlock, open, start back, stand · To what, where: first thing, cupboard, thing, handsome young man

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, first thing, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	nsubj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	12 run	mark
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cupboard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cupboard	det
15	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 unlock	cc
17	unlock	unlock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 run	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unlock	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 started	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 started	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 opened	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 opened	nsubj
24	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 started	advcl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 started	nsubj
26	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	parataxis
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 started	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ball	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 ball	case
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ball	punct
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	34 ball	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ball	det
34	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stood	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 stood	expl
37	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	parataxis
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 man	det
39	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stood	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past	girls = girl	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	run	past	the first thing		the cupboard	morning	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cupboard=Destination
3	unlock	infinitive	the first thing not said here	thing			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	open	past	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	start back	past	girls = girl				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	stand	past		a handsome young man	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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