The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 90

There he paused, for the sound of music broke upon his ears, and opening a door near him, he beheld a girl sitting by the window, holding a harp.

Who acts: boy, sound, girl · What happens: pause, break, open, behold, sit, hold · To what, where: sound, ears, door, girl, harp

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, sound, girl), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 paused	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paused	nsubj
3	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sound	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paused	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 music	case
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broke	obl
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sound	acl:relcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 ears	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 broke	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 opening	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 opening	cc
16	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 paused	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opening	obj
19	near	near	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 opening	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beheld	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 beheld	nsubj
23	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beheld	obj
26	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 girl	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 window	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sitting	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 holding	punct
31	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sitting	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 harp	det
33	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 holding	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	boy	the sound	there		tree rules
2	break	past	the sound not said here		boy's ears	of music	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location
3	open	gerund	boy not said here	a door		near boy	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme near he=Location
4	behold	past	boy	a girl			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
5	sit	gerund	a girl not said here			by the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location
6	hold	gerund	a girl not said here	a harp			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=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: «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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