The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 19

He stole away to the door, which was ajar, to see what was there, and a horse was standing eating.

Who acts: horse, door · What happens: steal away, be, see, stand, eat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ajar	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 ajar	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ajar	cop
10	ajar	ajar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 ajar	parataxis
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 there	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 see	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 standing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 standing	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 standing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 standing	aux
22	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stole	advcl
23	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 standing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	steal away	past	horse	to the door; away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the door	ajar property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past		there property	tree rules
5	stand	past · progressive	a horse		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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