The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 23

When he had opened the door he stepped in first, and thought to cover the likeness so that the King might not perceive it; but it was hopeless: the King stood on tiptoe and looked over his shoulder.

Who acts: Trusty, King, door · What happens: open, step, think, cover, not perceive, be · To what, where: Trusty, likeness, door, tiptoe

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trusty, King, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 opened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	aux
4	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stepped	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stepped	nsubj
8	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 stepped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stepped	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cover	mark
15	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 likeness	det
17	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cover	obj
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 perceive	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 perceive	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 perceive	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 perceive	advmod
24	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cover	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 perceive	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hopeless	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 hopeless	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hopeless	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hopeless	cop
30	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stepped	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 King	det
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 stood	nsubj
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stepped	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 tiptoe	case
36	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 looked	cc
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stood	conj
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 shoulder	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 shoulder	nmod:poss
41	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looked	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past · perfect · passive		Trusty			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme door=Destination
2	step	past	Trusty				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in first=Trajectory
3	think speech: other	past	Trusty not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	cover	to-infinitive	Trusty not said here	the likeness			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme likeness=Destination
5	not perceive	might	the King	door			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	is	past	door			hopeless property	tree rules
7	stand	past	the King		tiptoe		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location
8	look	past	the King not said here			over Trusty's shoulder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=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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