The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 69

It happened that when the king had opened the door behind him, Moti noticed that there was a garden outside: without waiting for the king’s return he began to think what could be got out of the garden small enough to be shut in the box.

Who acts: It, king, Moti, garden · What happens: happen, open, notice, be, wait, begin · To what, where: door, return, garden, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, king, Moti, garden), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 opened	mark
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 opened	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	aux
8	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 happened	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	obj
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 opened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 noticed	punct
14	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 noticed	nsubj
15	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 was	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 noticed	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 garden	det
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 garden	advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 waiting	punct
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 waiting	mark
24	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 noticed	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 return	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 return	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 king	case
29	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 waiting	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 return	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 think	mark
33	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 got	obj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 got	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 got	aux:pass
37	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 think	ccomp
38	out	out	ADP	_	41 garden	case
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 garden	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 garden	det
41	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 got	obl
42	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 got	xcomp
43	enough	enough	ADV	_	42 small	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	46 shut	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 shut	aux:pass
46	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 small	advcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 box	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 box	det
49	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shut	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	past · perfect	the king	the door		behind door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme behind he=Location
3	notice	past	Moti				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past	a garden		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wait	gerund				for the king's return	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	king	the king's return not said here			tree rules
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	king not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	get out	could · passive		the garden		small property	tree rules
9	shut	to-infinitive · passive			the box		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
10	return		the king				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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