Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 43

Quietly he lifted the door-flap and entered in.

Who acts: man · What happens: lift, enter · To what, where: door flap

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 lifted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flap	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flap	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 door	punct
7	flap	flap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 entered	cc
9	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 entered	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	man	the door flap				quietly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Theme
2	enter	past	man not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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