The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 71

Sometimes he was in front of the door, and sometimes the door was in front of him, and it went from one side of the porch to the other, till the attorney was well-nigh beaten to death.

Who acts: attorney, door · What happens: be, go, beat · To what, where: front, one side, attorney, death

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attorney, door), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 front	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 front	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 front	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 front	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 front	cc
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 front	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 front	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 front	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 front	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 front	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 side	nummod
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 porch	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 porch	det
28	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 other	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 went	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 beaten	punct
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 beaten	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 attorney	det
35	attorney	attorney	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beaten	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 beaten	aux:pass
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 beaten	advmod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 well	punct
39	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	40 beaten	advmod
40	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 went	parataxis
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beaten	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	attorney			front and front	of the door; sometimes property	tree rules
2	is	past	the door			front	of attorney; sometimes property	tree rules
3	go	past	door			one side of the porch	to the other	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location to other=Destination
4	beat	past · passive		the attorney	death		nigh, well property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to death=Recipient

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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