The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 91

And without waiting for an answer he shut the door.

Who acts: thought · What happens: wait, shut · To what, where: door

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (thought), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 waiting	cc
2	without	without	SCONJ	_	3 waiting	mark
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 answer	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 answer	det
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shut	nsubj
8	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shut	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund						for a answer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shut	past	thought	the door					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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