The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 64

On arriving at the door, which blazed with gold and jewels, she ordered her servants to knock loudly, but it was useless; it seemed as if all the inhabitants of the castle must be asleep or dead.

Who acts: mother, door, servants, gold, it, inhabitants · What happens: arrive, blaze, order, knock, be, seem · To what, where: door, servants

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (mother, door, servants, gold), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 arriving	mark
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ordered	advcl
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arriving	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blazed	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 blazed	nsubj
8	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 door	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blazed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jewels	cc
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gold	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 arriving	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ordered	nsubj
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 servants	nmod:poss
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ordered	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 knock	mark
19	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ordered	xcomp
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	19 knock	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 useless	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 useless	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 useless	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 useless	cop
25	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ordered	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 seemed	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seemed	nsubj
28	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ordered	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 asleep	mark
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 asleep	mark
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 inhabitants	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 inhabitants	det
33	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 asleep	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 castle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 castle	det
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 inhabitants	nmod
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 asleep	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 asleep	cop
39	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seemed	xcomp
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 dead	cc
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 asleep	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	mother not said here		the door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blaze	past	the door			with gold and jewels	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gold=Theme
3	order	past	mother	mother's servants			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
4	knock not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother's servants not said here			loudly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	is	past	gold			useless property	tree rules
6	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	is a condition, not said to happen	must	all inhabitants of the castle			asleep property	tree rules
8	be		all inhabitants of the castle not said here				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 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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