The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 16

We desired that it should be opened, and one of us stepping into it found himself up to the mid-leg in a sort of dust, some of which flying into our faces sent us both into a fit of sneezing.

Who acts: We, one, some · What happens: desire, open, step, find up, fly, send · To what, where: chest, Majesty, faces, us, fit, dust · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, one, some), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 desired	nsubj
2	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 opened	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 opened	nsubj:pass
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 opened	aux:pass
7	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 desired	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 found	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 found	csubj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stepping	obl
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 desired	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 found	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 found	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 mid-leg	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mid-leg	det
21	mid-leg	mid-leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sort	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sort	det
24	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mid-leg	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 dust	case
26	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sort	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sent	punct
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 sent	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sent	obl
31	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 sent	csubj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 faces	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 faces	nmod:poss
34	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flying	obl
35	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 desired	conj
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 sent	obj
37	both	both	ADV	_	35 sent	advmod
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 fit	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 fit	det
40	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sent	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 sneezing	case
42	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fit	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	past	We				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	open	should · passive		chest			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	step	gerund			chest		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
4	find up	past	one of us	Majesty		to the mid-leg in a sort of dust	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
5	fly	gerund				into our faces result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into face=Result
6	send	past	some	us	a fit of sneezing	both property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent we=Theme of which=Initial_Location
7	sort			dust			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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