The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 4

But as soon as the lamps were lighted in the grand hall, where she was sitting on a sofa covered with silk, the folding doors flew open, and he was sitting by her side the next minute.

Who acts: princess, folding doors, husband · What happens: light, sit, cover, fly · To what, where: lamps, grand hall, sofa

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, folding doors, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:1124): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 lighted	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 lighted	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lamps	det
6	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lighted	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lighted	aux:pass
8	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 flew	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hall	det
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hall	amod
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lighted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sitting	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 sitting	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sitting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hall	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 sofa	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sofa	det
20	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sofa	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 silk	case
23	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 doors	det
26	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 doors	compound
27	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 flew	nsubj
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flew	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sitting	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sitting	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sitting	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sitting	aux
34	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 flew	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 side	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 side	nmod:poss
37	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 minute	det
39	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 minute	amod
40	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past · passive		the lamps	the grand hall		soon property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	sit	past · progressive	princess		a sofa			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
3	cover	participle		a sofa not said here			with silk	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme
4	fly	past	the folding doors				open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	past · progressive	husband			minute	by princess's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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