The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 16

One evening as they sat thus cosily together someone knocked at the door as though he desired admittance.

Who acts: snowflakes, someone, lamb · What happens: sit, knock, desire · To what, where: admittance

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snowflakes, someone, lamb), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sat	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	cosily	cosily	ADV	_	8 together	advmod
8	together	together	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 knocked	nsubj
10	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocked	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	10 knocked	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 desired	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 desired	nsubj
17	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knocked	advcl
18	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 desired	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	snowflakes = snowflake		evening	thus, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	knock	past	someone			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	desire	past	lamb	admittance			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot admittance=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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