The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 68

She saw it open before him and close after him, and when she came up, she could no more get in than she could break through a stone wall.

Who acts: half · What happens: see, come up, get, break · To what, where: wood, stone wall

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 (half), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	xcomp
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 open	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 close	cc
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 open	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 close	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 get	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 could	advcl
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	nsubj
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 could	obj
22	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 get	advmod
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 break	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 break	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 break	aux
27	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 in	advcl
28	through	through	ADP	_	31 wall	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wall	det
30	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wall	compound
31	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 break	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	half	wood		open property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	come up	past	half				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	break	could	half		a stone wall		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wall=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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