The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 198

Suddenly the door opened, and in stepped a tiny little man and said: “Good-evening, Miss Miller-maid; why are you crying so bitterly?”

Who acts: door, you · What happens: open, step, say, cry · To what, where: tiny little man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, you), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 opened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stepped	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stepped	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 stepped	case
8	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stepped	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stepped	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 evening	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 evening	punct
17	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 evening	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Good	punct
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Miss	punct
21	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 evening	appos
22	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Miss	flat
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 maid	punct
24	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Miss	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 crying	punct
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 crying	advmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 crying	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 crying	nsubj
29	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 opened	advcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 bitterly	advmod
31	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	29 crying	advmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 crying	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	the door		suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	step	past	the door not said here	a tiny little man		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location man=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	the door not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express in a quote	present · progressive	you		bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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