The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 63

The benches were filled, and Marzinne was about to give the signal, when the door was suddenly thrown open, and an old man came in, wishing the guests a good appetite for their supper.

Who acts: Marzinne, old man · What happens: fill, be, give, throw, come in, wish · To what, where: benches, signal, door, guests

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marzinne, old 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 benches	det
2	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 filled	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	aux:pass
4	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 about	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 about	cc
7	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 about	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 about	cop
9	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 filled	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 give	mark
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 about	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 signal	det
13	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thrown	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 thrown	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrown	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thrown	aux:pass
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 thrown	advmod
20	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 signal	acl:relcl
21	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thrown	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	parataxis
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wishing	punct
30	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 guests	det
32	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wishing	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 appetite	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 appetite	amod
35	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wishing	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 supper	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 supper	nmod:poss
38	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wishing	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		the benches		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	Marzinne		about property	tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	Marzinne not said here	the signal		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
4	throw	past · passive		the door	open, suddenly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	come in	past	a old man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wish	gerund	a old man not said here	the guests	for Marzinne's supper	tree rules

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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