The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 23

He pulled the deer’s foot, and immediately a silver bell sounded and the door flew open, but the Prince could see nothing but numbers of hands in the air, each holding a torch.

Who acts: two, silver bell, door, Prince, each · What happens: pull, sound, fly, see, hold · To what, where: foot, nothing, torch

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, silver bell, door, Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deer	det
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 deer	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sounded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sounded	cc
9	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	13 sounded	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bell	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bell	compound
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sounded	nsubj
13	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sounded	conj
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flew	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 see	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 see	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pulled	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 see	obj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 numbers	cc
27	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 nothing	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 hands	case
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 numbers	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hands	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 holding	punct
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 holding	nsubj
35	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 see	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 torch	det
37	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 holding	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	past	two	the deer's foot		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	sound	past	a silver bell		immediately property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	fly	past	the door		open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	could	the Prince	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	hold	gerund	each	a torch		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=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 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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